omprehensible to the Western. And the dispute
finally rested on the question of whether 'before time' was the same as
'from eternity.' Such was the struggle which Arius and Athanasius
thrust upon the Church; a dispute which would never have been heard of
in such a shape but for their Egyptian origin.

In another direction Egypt was also dominant. From some
source--perhaps the Buddhist mission {93} of Asoka--the ascetic life of
recluses was established in the Ptolemaic times, and monks of the
Serapeum illustrated an ideal to man which had been as yet unknown in
the West. This system of monasticism continued, until Pachomios, a
monk of Serapis in Upper Egypt, became the first Christian monk in the
reign of Constantine. Quickly imitated in Syria, Asia Minor, Gaul, and
other provinces, as well as in Italy itself, the system passed into a
fundamental position in mediaeval Christianity, and the reverence of
mankind has been for fifteen hundred years bestowed on an Egyptian
institution.

We thus see how the religious ideas of six thousand years or more have
still survived and continued their power over civilised man, renamed
but scarcely changed; and it is shown how new religious ideas can but
transform, but not eradicate, the ancestral beliefs of past ages.

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INDEX

Bolded page numbers refer to bolded entries on their target page(s).

AAHMES, 42.
_Ab_, represented by heart, 9.
---- the will, 9.
Abusir, temple to Ra, 51.
Akhenaten, 54.
Amen, 51, 68.
Amenhotep III, serpent at Benha, 21.
Amon, +47+.
---- goose, 25.
---- ram, 23, 30, 53.
Amulets developed in XXVI, 17.
Anaitis. _See_ Anta.
Anher, 55, 65.
Animal-headed gods, 28.
Animal worship, 20.
_Ankh_ held by Maat, 60.
Anpu. _See_ Anubis.
Anqet, 63.
Ansar, 65.
Anta, 64.
Anubis, jackal, 24, +35+.
Apap, serpent, 26.
Apis, 23, 72.
Asar. _See_ Osiris.
Asari, 65.
Aset. _See_ Isis.
Ashtaroth, 23, +64+, 65.
Asir. _See_ Osiris.
Astarte. _See_ Ashtaroth.
Astharth. _See_ Ashtaroth.
Aten, 54.
Athtar, 65.
Atmu, 51, 53, 68, 80.

_Ba_, associated with _Sahu_, 9.
---- human-headed bird, 9.
---- in Book of the Dead, 78.
---- requires food, 9, 13.
Baal, 64.
Baboon (Tahuti), 22.
Bant-anta, 64.
Bast, lioness, 22, 33, 62.
Bastet, 33.
Benha, agathodemon serpent, 21.
B[=e]s, 62.
---- children wear figures of, 83.
Body not preserved in early time