Who that knows Northumberland has not roamed delightedly beside the lovely Coquet, that tricksome little river which sometimes murmurs softly along its rocky bed, and anon—swollen and turbid—fiercely dashes against its steep banks, rushing on toward the ocean with a force and rapidity that carries everything before it.
The divinity who bore the names of Amon , Amon-Re , Cneph or Cnouphis , was, as we have seen, the male generative principle of the universe. The Egyptians symbolized, in the character of Neith , the female generative principle of the whole of nature. These two principles, closely united, formed only one whole
The symbolic character , occupying the lower part of plate no. 5, is very rarely reproduced on Egyptian monuments of all periods. It is taken, as well as its legend, and the various colors which cover the varied members of which it is composed, from a fragment of a manuscript on
The image of the god depicted in this plate is very numerous on the religious buildings of Thebes and the rest of Egypt. It occupies the sanctuary of Karnac, the most magnificent of the monuments of the ancient capital; the homage and adoration of which this image is the object,
Most Eastern cosmogonies admit that water existed before the material organization of other parts of the globe, whose germs were confused and intermingled in this fluid. Several Greek philosophers have also systematically maintained that water was the principle of all things; this doctrine came, in all appearance, from the sanctuaries