266;Ahura, wife of,266;plays game of draughts with Setne,268;Setne commanded by Pharaoh to return Thoth's book to,268NEF-ERT. Statue of,50NEF-ER-TEM. Reference to,147;son of Ptah; symbolized by the lotus-flower; one of the triad of Morphis,150;the lotus and,299NEGROES. Reference in sealed letter read by Se-Osiris to land ofthe,214,215,216NE'HA-HER. Serpent in underworld,117NEITH. Arrow of,7;equivalent, Net,21;reference to,156;origin,276NEKH'BET OR NEKHEBET. Goddess; Horus and,89,90;Serpent, the symbol of,93;reference to,143;female companion of Hapi,171;the vulture, the symbol of,297NE-O-LITH'IC. Origin; Egyptian mysteries of,59;Nubians,76;savages;Book of the Deadand,122NEPH'THYS. One of the great gods at Heliopolis,14;reference to,17;birth of,65;sister-goddess to Isis,77,246;female counterpart of Set; daughter of Geb and Nut, and mother ofAnubis; assists Isis,97;Book of the Deadand,97;equivalent, Nebt-het,97;magical powers of,98;protects Osiris,98;personification of darkness,98;prepares the funeral bed of Osiris and guards his corpse,99;later representation,99;reference to,103,147,155,174;Book of the Deadand,156NEP'RA. Mention of, in hymn to Hapi,171NES'ERT (Flame). Name of Sekhmet,147NEW EMPIRE. Equivalent New Kingdom,27;reference to,36;temple-building and advent of,59NEW EMPIRE ART. Described,317-319;period witnessed the completion of the hypostyle hall at Karnak,the temple of Rameses III at Medinet-habû, and the great assemblyof ecclesiastical edifices at Dér-el-Bahari,317;buildings at Luxor,317,318;rock-cut temples at Bêt-el-Wálî and Abu-Simbel,318;Memnon at Thebes and the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak,318;the statues of Thothmes III; Amenophis, the son of Hapu,and Queen Tyi,318;re bas-relief, the likenesses of Seti I (Abydos), Septah Meneptah,and Queen Aahmes,318NEW KINGDOM. Process of mummification during period of,27;equivalent, New Empire,36;wealth and power of gods in,52;symbol of winged disk in,92;language,183NILE. Dynastic Egyptians along the banks of the,35;description of house on banks of the,42;inundation of,48,83;dead carried across the,62;country, shrines to Osiris in,63;Osiris supposed god of the,64;coffin of Osiris on the,67;moon-god identified with the,76;Ra, voyages on the,88,89;sacrifice thrown into,103;belief of early dwellers by the,128;gods of the,153;flood of the,154,155;reference to the,161,168,169,194,201,205;source of all wealth and provender,170;Bitou made Prince of the Upper,228;temple to Queen Hatshepsut erected in the valley of the,248;cows cast into the sacred waters of the,284,303;the Apis and the,285NILE VALLEY. Divinities worshipped in,1;totemism non-existent in the,3;practice of magic in,7;funeral processions along,30;belief in, regarding soul,32;characteristics of,33;inhabitants of,34;language of,34;religion of,34;inhabitants of, little affected by time,44;feudal system in,45;nature of soil,46;worship of Ra in,132;worship of Amen in,137,141;Egyptian system of writing traced within the,184;fables early popular in,194NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Pony totem worshipped by,11;celebrations by, almost identical with that of Eleusis,58;initiatory ceremonies of,122;eagle a symbol of the sun among,130NORTH LAND. Promised to Thothmes by Harmachis,86NORTHERN MARSHES. Horus born in the,85NU. Deity of the firmament and the rain,12;things created from out of,13;children of,13;eye of,14;identified with Khepera,14;alluded to in the Pyramid Texts,21;primeval abyss of,108;great mass of celestial waters called,118;has place inBook of the Dead,119;Pet, a contradistinction to word,125;Mut, original female counterpart of,143;reference to,170,173NU'BI-A. Researches in,38;explorations of,43;monuments in,43;battles between Horus and followers of Set, in,90;power of Amen-Ra in,142;Māter, ruler of,154;cult of Anqet in Northern,156;reference to,194;reference to King of, in sealed letter read by Se-Osiris,213;Queen Hatshepsut designed to reign over,246NUBIANS. Racial origin,34;moon-god of the Neolithic,76NUN. The oldest of the gods; Ra seeks counsel of,166NUT. Deity of the firmament and the rain,12;one of great gods at Heliopolis,14;reference to,17;equivalent, Rhea,64;Thoth,65;five children of, and,65;frequently portrayed in a sycamore tree,72;mother of Horus the Elder,84;mother of Nephthys,97,172;mother of Set,99;personification of the morning,118;mother of Hathor,165;follower of Ra,166;daughter of Shu and Tefnut; wife of Geb, and mother of Osirisand Isis; personification of sky,172;counterpart of Nu,172;the spouse of Nu, and of Geb,173;general appearance,173;frequently represented in form of cow,173;the sycamore sacred to,174,298;place of origin, Denderah,174;office in the underworld,174;portrait of, painted on coffins as a charm,174;the sky-goddess; in the Court of Amen-Ra,246OOB'EL-ISK-S. Of Heliopolis,317OCH'US. Persian monarch reigning over Egyptians, and nicknamed the Ass,103OD'IN. Reference to eye of,13OLD KINGDOM. Alternative, the Pyramid Age,22;comprised dynasties I to VIII,36;domestic architecture of,43;decapitation, a mode of death in,47;language of,183;monuments, &c., of a model for the New Empire,301;reference to the priests of the,305;statues in the,315OL-YM'PUS. Worship of,9;the high place of deities,10ON. Equivalent for Heliopolis,54,113,114;worship of Ra in,132'OPENER OF THE WAYS.' Equivalent for Up-uaut,105ORACLE-S. The Apis, in the temple of Ptah,286;not of Egyptian origin,303'ORE, BLACK.'SeeBlack powder,alsoAlchemy.ORENDA. Of the North American Indians; reference to,261ORIENT, ANCIENT. The peoples of, invoked evil beings equally with good,258ORIENTALS. Like Egyptians, fatalists,49;like Egyptian labourers, sing while at work,205OR-I'ON. Stars of,75OS-I'RIS. Myth of,6,64;coffin of,7;one of the great gods at Heliopolis,14;account of creation according to worshippers of,14;cause of primeval matter,14;one of the first of the company of gods,17;mummification arose out of the cult of,22;sacredness of man's body taught by priests of,26;Pharaohs identified with,27;night journey of,30;religion in Nile valley and,34;dark realm of,48;son of,54;annual commemoration of sufferings and death of,56;birthday of,57;one of principal figures in Egyptian pantheon,63;equivalent, As-ar,63;god of the dead and the underworld,63,76,77;origins extremely obscure,63;centre of Osiris-worship at Abydos,63;shrines to,63;dwells peaceably in underworld,64;usually figured as wrapped in mummy bandages,64;African in origin,64;son of Nut,65;his birth,65,174;Pamyles proclaims birth of,66;education by Pamyles,66;prophecies concerning,66;wife rules for,66;Set invites banquet,67;gets into fatal chest,67;death of,67;coffin enclosed in pillar at Byblos,68;his many tombs,70;promising to return to earth when his wrongs are avenged,70;Sir G. Frazer on myth of,70;use of corn and; cultivation of vine and; corn-spirit and tree-spirit,71;myth of, as tree-spirit,72-73;identified with sun-god, Ra,73;lunar significance,74-75;pigs sacrificed to,75;hymn addressed by Isis to,75;god of fertility,77;personification of Ra,78;typical of bodily resurrection,79;Book of the Deadand,79,80;in his guise of the corn dies and is restored to life again by Isis,81;reference to,88,90-93,98,99,100,103,104,107,109,110,114-116,122,128,137,139,141,145-147,153,155,156,167,208;represented 'yesterday,'95;journey of, in the underworld,116,117;his journey as Af Ra through the Duat,118;description of his rôle as judge of the dead,119;Osirian paradise consisted of converse with,134;struggle between priesthoods of Ra and,135;worship of,135;overshadows Ra; identified with Tem,136;Hapi identified with,169;identified with Venus,181;seen in a vision by Setne,209,210;on right hand of Amen-Ra in the land of the gods,246;threatened to be named aloud in the port of Busiris,260,261;invoked in connexion with spells over crocodiles,264;black powders identified with the body possessed by,270;mummy magic and the god,274;the Apis and,284-287;the spirit of, infused into the ox,285;a dual god with the Apis,287;worship ofRam of Mendes, and,288;crocodiles, friend and foe of,289;the falcon sacred to,296;Set the dark brother of,300;identified with Dionysos, by Herodotus,303;identified with Pluto,306;reference to the vignette of the Judgment before,320;a study of, in Saïte statuary,320OUN-AM'OU-NOU. The chief priest of the temple of Amen-Ra;visits coasts of Egypt,232-236;arrives at Tanis,232;arrives at Dora, city of Zakkala,232;Prince Badîl sends food to,232;reaches Tyre,233;sails in direction of Byblos,233OUS-I-MAR'ES, PHARAOH. Name of king in "History of Setneand his son Se-Osiris,"206,207;seePharaoh Ousimares.OUS-I-MAN'THOR. Son born to Setne,219OXFORD. Reference to museum at,37PPACH'ONS. Month of; sacrifices to Set during,100PA-HER'I. Prince of El Kab,120PAINTING. Of Japan, derived from China,311;in England, Scotland, Germany, and France, importedchiefly from the Low Countries,311;the materials of,315-317;of Saïte period,320;French,321PAK'ROU-ROU. Ally of Ierharerou, King-Priest of Heliopolis,240;meets Moutoubaal, a prince of Syria,243PALÆOLITHIC MAN. Sleep a puzzle to,255PALERMO STONE. Inscription called the,18PALESTINE. Theory that stoneworking race immigrated to Egypt from,34;researches into,38;spoil of conquered, loaded temple of Amen,139;reference, to,191,194;Joppa, a town in Thontii and,248PAL'LAS ATH-E'NÉ. Alluded to,19PAM-IL'I-A. Festival of,66PAM-Y'LES. Heard voices at birth of Osiris,65;education of Osiris entrusted to,66PAN. Worshipped at Mendes, according to Herodotus,288PAN-OP'OL-IS. One of the centres of Amen-Ra at,142PANTHEON, EGYPTIAN. Foreign gods, inclusion in,275;Sebek and the rites of all the other gods in the,289;Ta-urt, the hippopotamus goddess, identified with every goddess in the,294PAP-Y'RI. Medical, containing formulæ to be employed againstthe demons of disease,269PAP-Y'RUS. Reference to, of Ani,6,57;the Nebseni,111;the Turin,111;of Setna,184;the Harris,248,262;the d'Orbiney; in the British Museum,224;story of "The Doomed Prince" in the Harris,228-232;story of "How Thontii took the Town of Joppa," inscribed in the Harris,248;A Tale of Setna, related in a, of the Ptolemaic period,265-268;of Queen Mat-ka-ré,320,324PAR'A-DISE. Material delights of,127;animal transformations in,129PARIS. Cult of Isis carried on in, to-day,80PASSION-PLAY. Ceremony in hall of Mystæ, in the nature of a,58PAÜNI. Sacrifices during the month,102PÉ. City given to Horus by Ra,97PEASANT. The workman and the; story of,220-224PELUCE. A main approach into Egypt; Setuan and his army encamp there,219,220PE'PI. Description of homage rendered to deity in text of,15;material for the study of Egyptian pantheon in Pepi the First,19;texts found in the tomb of,113;the Pyramid of,114PERIOD-S. Religion of the Late,299-303;the Ptolemaic,304-306;the Decadent,301;the Libyan,299;the Hellenic,306;the Thinite, the first great, of Egyptian art; the Memphite,314;the New Empire,317-319;the Saïte,319,320PER-SEPH'ON-E. Alternative, Kore,58;mention of,77PERSIA-N. 1. History, intertwined with that of Egypt,37;2. Conquest, reference to,35;currency unknown in Egypt until,45.3. Rule, religion under,304PERU. Place origins in,10;condor typified orb of day in ancient,130;creation legends of,133;solar cult of,134PERUVIANS. Mummification practised by,29;sacrificed dogs at burials,104;forms of worship of,133PES'EDT. Company in nine deities designated as the,16;strange gods absorbed in the leader of the,16;no name given to the third,17;entire, unified in Amen,141PET. Egyptian name for heaven,125PET-EK-HOU'SOU. Brothers of Pimonî; overthrow Anoukhoron,244PETRIE, PROFESSOR FLINDERS. Authority on Egyptology,35;supports Manetha's chronology,35;dating of Egyptian history according to,36;scientific investigation under,39;Egyptian tombs, and,105;monuments and temples in honour of Aten, recovered by,160PETROGRAD. Egyptian tale preserved in Hermitage Collection at,191PET-U-BAS'TIS. A portrait of, in Saïte statuary,320PE'UN. Courtier; King Amasis, and,197PHAN-E'MOTH. Month,75PHA-OPH-I. Sacrifices during the month,102PHA'RAOH-S. Place of burial,22;women, servants, and dogs slaughtered at grave of,23;identified with Osiris,27;head of feudal system,45;attire of,49;ecclesiastical party, and,52;lotus and papyrus as emblem of union, on thrones of,170;mention of a,192,193,194,200,201,202,207;entices Bitou's wife,226;slays Bitou in form of sacred bull (Apis), and in form of trees,226,227;unknowingly makes Bitou his successor,228;sons of the, and the higher offices of the 'kheri-heb' priests,261;gave lavishly to the cult of the Apis bull,286;