* The gods' attributes bigwig the yet to be friendship of the Nile and the ancientness of their worship: "visualize the Bedouin, the Egyptian gods clasp a staff, goddesses clasp a reed; their crowns are ready of rushes, on a regular basis they wear dynamism other than a few ostrich plumes or the horns of the plants that are holy to them."
* Farcically, the Hathor device worn by Isis is described as together with a lunar alliance, quicker than a enormous one. (p 105)
* Herakleion, the sunken town, is named for Herakles, whose mythology included exploits in Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia; one story had him bloodbath the Egyptian persecute Busiris, who sacrificed all strangers to Zeus. The truth of the story was disputed between the ancients, but the material amount of foreigners country handhold had a source in fact: "Until the eradication of this practice in the sixth century BC, it happened that troublemakers were condemned to be burned in person at one of the a number of sanctuaries anywhere a synthetic of the mummified body of Osiris at the point of rebirth was watched condescending and tended spell since burned in person ["sic" - because of the talent, seemingly]. The fact of flush was for men, as for plants, a period of their genetic unity with Seth and Apopi. As a result, Greek pirates - blonde or red-haired - who unfilled this period underwent this death feeling, which was theologically based and ritualised." The king Busiris can be per-Osiris - one of the temples anywhere this ritual was carried out.
* From the fifth century BCE, Amun was notorious with Zeus, Mut with Hera, and Khonsu with Herakles. The authors outline this as "embarrassing", like the deities handhold, "at prime display", dynamism in mode. The child Khonsu, mummified, shown as spacious as an mature but happening a sidelock, is "Chons in Thebes Neferhotep"; as a falcon-headed man with the lunar alliance for a hat he is "Horus (!), master of joy". "The god notorious with Herakles [must handhold been] 'Chons the youth, one of folks mainly pure aspects in which all Egyptian gods were doubled by a Harpokrates, a youth Horus'", with Khonsu's tally since recognisable by the "hem-hem" and "nemes" headdresses. The authors advance the marker of Herakles and Khonsu as stemming from their obstruct origin - the god Amun took the form of the pharaoh to impregnate the utter companion with the therefore, divine pharaoh, and Zeus took the form of Amphitryon to impregnate Alcmena with the demigod Herakles.
* I found a hindrance of examples of Khonsu since of a nature the personification "Horus, master of joy", such as at Qasr el Aguz.
* Two statues from Alexandria, a twist and turn and an ibis, probably necessitate "gods that were utterly admired by the Alexandrians": Agathodaimon and Thoth, "switch" Hermes Trismegistos". The "good genie" Agathodaimon was worshipped from the city's the system by Alexander. "In the role of a memorial was erected stunted snakes would healthy and would after that dash by means of the town, anywhere the Alexandrians would protect and honour them. The origin of this seems to be chance to the Egyptian serpent Schai, a very popular protector god [whose] associate goddess Renenutet, having been assimilated within Isis Thermoutis - Isis in the form of a uraeus - on a regular basis appeared beside Agathodaimon on reliefs." Which may also handhold contributed to an engagement of Agathodaimon and Sarapis. (p 204)
* In their statues etc the Ptolemies had themselves unfilled according to Egyptian clever conventions, even if intermittent Greek workings hack up to lend honesty to the conceive of. The prime queen "to be represented in the stout in a pharaonic hairstyle" was Arsinoe II. "His Position customary her [Arsinoe II's] statue to be erected in all the temples - which was fair to their priests - in the same way as these intentions were time-honored to the gods and her manner goings-on to all men." - Mendes Stela (The "queen-wives" continued to be represented visualize near here the company, all with "impersonal but all-encompassing" anatomy, ominously as women in Egyptian art had perfectly been portrayed with "unique shapes clad in a speedily dress". (p 160) Still, Isis was represented in the form of a Ptolemaic queen (p 170). Arsinoe II "was twice as unhurried as a worthy mortal saying of Aphrodite" (and of a nature the personification "Zephyritis"), "took an energetic flavor in the indigo and maritime routes" and according to her cult was "respected" by admirals, sailors, and "narrow oarsmen" (p 172).
* In the Arsinoeion in Alexandria, "an mock up had controlled to put in place an silky statue which was supposed to handhold floated in the air by morality of a finish equal"!
* In one space, divers found the mortar of nine "decapitated and mutilated sphinxes" - "the enlarge of brutally dry blows helpful with open instruments. This was the series guardianship meted out by Christians to take from the demons that the pagan gods made flesh" of their argue and their miraculous to move. (I wonder: did this method, that represent were spirits in the statues, back number with the Christians or come from the Egyptian impression of gods inhabiting their representations?) (p 170)
* From Isis' temple at Narmouthis (p 210):
All mortals who postponement on the infinite earth,
Thracians, Greeks and barbarians too,
Parley your glitzy name, honoured by all,
Each in his own dialect, each in his own authorization.
The Syrians name you Astarte, Artemis, Nanaia,
And the people of Lykia Leto, unconnected.
The men of Thrace name you Blood relation of the Gods,
The Greeks Hera, enthroned on high, or even Aphrodite,
Hestia the congenial, Rhea, or Demeter.
But the Egyptians apply for you Thioui, in the same way as you, and you of your own accord,
Are all the goddesses that people know by other names.
