os. See on this subject the commentaries of Cyril
of Alexandra and Procopius of Gaza on chap, xviii. of
Isaiah.

** It is worthy of note that Philo gives to the divinity
with the Egyptian name Taautos the part in the ancient
history of Phoenicia of having edited the mystic writings
put in order by Sanchoniathon at a very early epoch.

The city proclaimed Horus to be a great god.* El-Kronos allied himself
with Osiris as well as with Adonis; Isis and Baalat became blended
together at their first encounter, and the respective peoples made
an exchange of their deities with the same light-heartedness as they
displayed in trafficking with the products of their soil or their
industry.

* This is confirmed by one of the names inscribed on the Tel
el-Amarna tablets as being that of a governor of Byblos
under Amenothes IV. This name was read Rabimur, Anrabimur,
or Ilrabimur, and finally Ilurabihur: the meaning of it is,
"Muru is the great god," or "Horus is the great god." Muru is
the name which we find in an appellation of a Hittite king,
Maurusaru, "Mauru is king." On an Aramoan cylinder in the
British Museum, representing a god in Assyrian dress
fighting with two griffins, there is the inscription
"Horkhu," Harmakhis.

[Illustration: 104.jpg THE PHOENICIAN HORUS]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an intaglio engraved in
Cesnola. The Phoenician figures of Horus and Thot which I
have reproduced were pointed out to me by my friend
Clermont-Ganneau.

After Osiris, the Ibis Thot was the most important among the deities
who had emigrated to Asia. He was too closely connected with the Osirian
cycle to be forgotten by the Phoenicians after they had adopted his
companions. We are ignorant of the particular divinity with whom he was
identified, or would be the more readily associated from some similarity
in the pronunciation of his name: we know only that he still preserved
in his new country all the power of his voice and all the subtilty of
his mind. He occupied there also the position of scribe and enchanter,
as he had done at Thebes, Memphis, Thinis, and before the chief of each
Heliopolitan Ennead. He became the usual adviser of El-Kronos at Byblos,
as he had been of Osiris and Horus; he composed charms for him,
and formulae which increased the warlike zeal of his partisans; he
prescribed the form and insignia of the god and of