Identifier: cu31924092320518 (find matches)
Title: The gods of the Egyptians : or, Studies in Egyptian mythology
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Mythology, Egyptian
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Avays of heaven and, in short, assisted the dead to rise to the newlife, even as he had helped the child Horus to take his seat uponthe throne of his father Osiris. The centre of the cult of Sebekwas Ombos, f^s^ W@i Nubit, where he was held to be the fatherof Heru-ur, and was identified with Seb, and was called, Father of the gods, the mighty one among the gods and goddesses, the great king, the prince of the Nine Bow Barbarians. As Sebek-Ka-Temu he was the power of the sun which created the world,and he is styled, the beautiful green disk which shineth ever, the creator of whatsoever is and of whatsoever shall be, who proceededfrom Nu, and who possesses many colours and many forms.^Other important seats of the cult of Sebek were:—1. Silsila (Khennu,Y Q ^ ®) ^^here he was adored with Tem, Nu, Heru-ur, andHeru-Behutet; 2. Pa-khent (^ ^^), where he Avas wor-shipped with Amen-lia; 3. Latopolis, where he was identified ^ Belirjion und Mylliologie, p. 5S8. ■ Bnigsch, Religion, p. 591.
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The Goo AN-HERU, CROCODILE AND HYDRUS 357 with Heqa, the son of Shu-Khnemu-Ra and Tefnut-Nebuut-Sekhet-I ©), where he was merged in Ra and was AAAAAA / held to be the father of Horus ; 5. Pa-Sebek, near Hermonthis,where he formed the chief member of the triad of Sebek-Seb, Nut-Hathor, and Khensu ; 6. Hermonthis, where he was merged inMenthu, and as Sebek-Seb became the counterpart of Menthu-Raand Amen-Ra, and the head of the company of the gods ofHermonthis and Thebes; at Tuphium, near Thebes, where he wasAvorshipped under the form of a crocodile, with a sun-disk and thefeathers of Amen upon his head; 7. Krokodilonpolis-Arsinoe,the Shetet, *^ffi,, and Ta-Shetet, , of the hieroglyphic texts, which was situated near Lake Moeris, and was called the city of Sebek par excellence. In the north of Egypt the chiefsanctuaries of Sebek were Prosopis, Sais, Metelis, Onuphis, andthe city of Apis, Avhich was situated in the Libyan nome ; ^ in thislast-named place Osiris was worshipped under the f

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