decline in the ancient faith of the,299;the ancient faith of the, foreign religions penetrate the land of the,309;Christianity triumphs in the land of the,309PHARAOH MANAKH'PHRÊ-SIAMON. Reference to, in sealed letter read bySe-Osiris,213-219PHARAOH MY-CER-I'NUS. Work in Cairo Museum shows, seated,313PHARAOH OUS-I-MAR'ES. The sealed letter and,211;Se-Osiris reads sealed letter to,213-215;Setne, son of,212PHAROAH PET-OU-BAS'TIS. Civil war in Egypt during reign of,240-245PHID'I-AS. Reference to theElgin Marblesof,314;Egyptian art remains inferior to those of Greek origin wroughtin time of,323PHIL-A-DEL'PHUS.SeePtolemy IIPHIL'AE. Temples of,43;great temple of Isis at,71,73;shrine of Heru at,86;temple of I-em-hetep at,151;shrine of Anqet at,156PHŒNICIA. Reference to,194PHŒNICIAN-s. Egypt and the,46;their alphabet taken from Egyptian hieratic,185;Reshpu corresponds to god known by,280PHŒ'NIX, THE. The mythical bird; the bennu gave rise to,296;fables of, recounted by Herodotus and Pliny,296;rose from sacred tree in the 'Great Hall' of Heliopolis,298PHRA-HAR'MAKH-IS. God who intervenes between Anapou and Bitou,225PILOT-GODS. Craft of Osiris steered by,116PIM-O'NÎ, PRINCE. Alternative, 'Pimonî of the strong fist';successor of Ierharerou, the King-Priest of Heliopolis,240;Petekhousou brother of,244PLAN-ROOM. Chamber in Heliopolis; designs of House of Thoth, in,202PLINY. Statement of,rethe soul of Aristeas,6;the prophecies at the procession of the Apis, and,286;fables of the phœnix recounted by,296PLUTARCH. Religious tales of,4;principal authority for legend of Osiris,64;quotation from hisDe Iside el Osiride,64;gives particulars of grave of Osiris,73;statement by, regarding Osiris,74;quotation from,74-75;throws light upon myth of Nephthys,98;quotation from, regarding Set and the Ass,101;statement on Anubis,104;gives the astronomical significance of Anubis,105;his allegation regarding the form in which Isislamented death of Osiris,297;the Legend of Sarapis and,306,307PLUTO. One of the chief figures in the Eleusinian mystery,58;husband of Persephone; god of grain and growth,77;reference to,102POP'OL VUH. Story of creation recorded in the,12;reference to,58,133;book of the Central Americans, resemblingBook of the Dead,121;story of wonderful crop of maize, in,122POL-Y-THE-IS'TIC WORSHIP. A national tendency, among Egyptians,275PORCELAIN. Of mediæval China,311POST-IMPRESSIONIST-S.SeeArtPOWER, NAMES OF.SeeNamesPOW-HAT'ANS. Their beliefrethe souls of their chiefs at death,5PRAYER-S. Prescribed, in connexion with medical magic in Egypt,269PREDESTINED PRINCE. Alternative "The Doomed Prince,"228-232;Story of the, discovered by Goodwin,248PRIEST-S. The 'kheri-heb,' the recognized representations ofmagic in Egypt,261;the higher offices filled by sons of the Pharaohs,261;new order known as the 'priesthood of the beneficent gods,'305;the Theban, regarded as sages,305;reference to the, of the old kingdom,305PRIESTESSES. In Thebes, consecrated to the service of Amen,305PRINCE,THE. Work by Machiavelli,187PRINCE, THE DOOMED. The story of,228-232;doomed, to three evil fates—to die by a crocodile, a serpent,and a dog,231PRO-CON-NES'US. Aristeas of,6PROPHECIES. The Apis Oracle, and,286PRUSSIA. Reference to expedition sent by, into Egypt, Nubia, Syria,and Palestine,38PSAM-MET'ICH-US I. Founded town of Naucratis,46;story of the days of,197PTAH. A form of the sun-god,21;temple of,53;Book of the Dead, and,119;greatest of the gods at Memphis; derivation of name, uncertain,144;alluded to in Pyramid Texts,144;a master architect and framer of everything in the universe,144;partakes of the nature of Thoth, and also of Shu,145;as Ptah-Seker represents union of creative power with that ofchaos or darkness,145;absorbs attributes of Seker; also connected with Tenen,146;had variants which took attributes of Min, Amsu, and Khepera;described as, triune god of the resurrection,146;centre of worship at Memphis,147;female counterpart, Sekhmet,147;Seven Wise Ones, and,147;reference to,150,154,171,207;Pharaoh Manakhphrê-Siamon swears by,215;the Apis oracle in temple of,286;Apis, the bull of the temple of,302PTAH-ANKH. One of the Pyramid Age sculptors,315PTAH-HOT'EP. Books of proverbs or instructions attributed to,187PTAH OF ANKH'TAUI. Temple of,198PTAH-SEK'ER. One of the gods alluded to inBook of the Dead,119;represents union of creative power with that of chaos or darkness,145PTAH-SEK'ER-AS'AR. Equivalent, Ptah-Seker-Osiris,146PTAH-SEK'ER-O-SIR'IS.SeePtah-Seker-Asar.PTOL-EM-Æ'US. Demise of King of foretold by oracle of Sebek,291PTOL-E-MA'IC. Period; travelling courts instituted in,47;Saïte Recension employed to the end of the, period,114;forms small figures of Amen-Ra made in,141;period; references to,152,186,196PTOL'EM-IES. Reference to text of the,151PTOL'EM-Y II, PHIL-A-DEL'PHUS. Temple of Mendes rebuilt by,288;Apis and Mnevis provided for, by,305PTOLEMY III. Decree of Canopu, belonging to,186PTOLEMY SO'TER. Identification of Sarapis with Pluto, assigned bytradition to reign of,306PUNT. Queen Hatshepsut designed to reign over,246PYRAMID AGE. Equivalent to the Old Kingdom,22PYRAMIDION, HOUSE OF THE. Temple built to his god by Amen-hetep,159PYRAMID-S. Ritual texts and spells inscribed in the,183;the Sphinx and the; monuments of bygone Egypt,314;theMonna Lisaof Leonardo da Vinci and the Elgin Marblesof Phidias, evoked by the,314;age sculptors; Ptah-Ankh, one of the,315;days; craft of painting on sun-dried clay, during,316PYRAMID TEXTS. Allusion to the,12;mention of deities in the,15,19-21;a double group of eighteen gods mentioned in the,16;inscriptions antedating the,18;material for study of Egyptian pantheon found in the,19;origin of,24;Set alluded to in the,99;reference to,63,110;Ptah alluded to in the,144;Bast mentioned in,148;Sebek referred to in the,289;revival of the,301PYTHAGOREANS. Typho and the,102QQEB. One of the first company of gods,17QEBH-SEN'NÛF. The falcon; represented on canopic jars,28QET'ESH. An Egyptian goddess borrowed from Semitic Asia,276;in Syria, worshipped as a nature goddess,279;in Egypt identified with one of the forms of Hathor,279;considered by some authorities to be an aspect of Ashtoreth,279;one other appellation, the 'eye of Ra,' &c.,279;prayed to for gifts of life and health,279;associated as one of a trinity with Amsu or Min and the god Reshpu,279QU-EB'UI. North wind, called,180QU-ER'TI. Cavern from which flowed Nile flood,154QUET'ZAL-CO-ATL. Reference to the Mexican god,130RRA. Ferry-boat of,6;representation of,11;the creative faculty and,13;darts of,16;name joined to that of Tem,17;a form of the sun-god,21;night journey of,30;comparison with Osiris,63;equivalent, Helios,65;pronounced curse upon Nut,65;Thoth turns curse aside,65;identified with Osiris,73,78;Horus the elder one of the chief forms of,85;Harmachis refers to his identity with,86;Horus assists,88;shrine erected to Horus, by desire of,89;prisoners of Horus brought before,90;at one time identified with Horus,92;Horus legends and,93;grants request of Horus,96;gives Horus the city of Pé,97;reference to,100,101,103;eyes of,105;mental powers of,106;reference to eye of,107;boat of,108;solar doctrine of,114;alluded to inBook of the Dead,119;dwells in heaven,125;helps Osiris to climb into heaven,128;position in Egyptian pantheon,130;number of sun-cults became fused in that of,130;bird and serpent associated in,130;daily voyage of,131;worship of, in Egypt,132;how progeny of, first gained Egyptian throne,132;worship of, supreme in Nile valley,132;power of his priests,133,134;temple at Heliopolis dedicated to,134;his sphere more spiritual than that of Osiris,134;struggle between priesthoods of Osiris and,135;cult of, foreign elements in,135;overshadowed by Osiris,136;reference to,137,138;fusion with Amen,139,140;temple of, at Memphis,147;reference to,148,151,153,158,160,162,164,165,171,174,176,181,202,203,205;Hathor and myths of,166-168;Isis and the secret name of,259;invoked in connexion with spells,264;one of the spells in Thoth's Library of Magical Books enableda man to see,266;word 'recipe' said to be an invocation to the 'god,'269;'God of Light and Health,' one of the appellations of,269;Qetesh termed the 'eye of,' &c.,279;worship ofRam of Mendes, and,288;Sebek connected with,289;the lion identified with,291;the 'Sphinx' at Gizeh, the symbol of the sun-god,292;the falcon sacred to,296RA-TEM. Blending of Ra and Atum,133RA-HAR-MACH-IS. Worship of, restored by Thothmes IV,157;obelisk built by Amen-hetep IV,158RA-HER'U-AKH'TI.SeeRa-Heru-KhutiRA-HER'U-KHU'TI. Ruled over a region of Field of Reeds,116;equivalent, Ra-Heru-Akhti; Aten adopted the title of high-priest of,157RA-HOR-AKH'TI. The reign of,88RAM'ES-ES. Pyramid of, cannot be placed satisfactorily,26;tale illustrating the healing power of Khonsu, located in thetime of King,176-180RAM'E-SES II. Anena, a scribe who executed the original d'Orbiney papyrus,lived in reign of,224;a temple to Baal existed at Tanis under,277;named one of his sons Mer-Astrot, after Ashtoreth,279;tame lion kept by,292;the New Empire during time of, a model for the Late period,301RAM'-E-SES III. Power of god Amen in time of,52;temple built for Khonsu at Thebes by,176;the conspiracy of Hui against, by means of magical books,262,263;goddess Anthat honoured by,277;tame lion kept by,292;reference to temple of, at Medinet-habû,317RAMESSIDES. Baal especially esteemed by,277RAMESSID DYNASTY. High-priest of Amen-Ra raised to royal power atend of the,140RAM OF MENDES. The cult of; ascribed by Manetho to Kaiekhos,288;worship of, in the Deltaic cities Hermopolis, Lycopolis, and Mendes,288;Herodotus relates Pan was worshipped with the,288;Ptolemy II Philadelphus rebuilds temple of,288;appellation, Khnemu,288;worshipped both by conquered and conquerors,306RAM, THE. Reference to,288RA-OSIRIS. The two gods blended in one,78;equivalent, Afra,78;punishment of the wicked mitigated in the Duat by appearance of,122;enemies of, and the souls of the doomed,123RA-SEK-EN-EN. Nationalist prince portrayed in fable,194RAT. Female counterpart of Ra,132RAT-TAU'IT. Goddess worshipped at Hermonthis; mother of Horus the younger,84REALM OF SEK'ER A separate realm of the dead,117RECENSION. The Heliopolitan, Theban, and Saïte, ofBook of the Dead,113,114'RECIPE.' Word is said to be an invocation to Ra, whose symbol it is,269RED MAN. Reference to imaginings of the,15RED SEA. Crossed by immigrants from Arabia to Egypt,34RELIGION-S. Egyptologists regard Egyptian magic to be a degraded form of,252;numerous strata in Egyptian,257;Egyptian magic more in common with, than most other systems,258;evolution of, on Egyptian soil,258;Semitic and African influence on Egyptian,280-282;Egyptian; symbolism of, mostly expressed by means of animals,283,284;of the Late period,299-303;under Persian rule,304;the Ptolemaic period,304-306;under the Decadent period,301;the Libyan period,299;Egyptian, thrown into obscurity by the devotees of Christianity,300;the Alexandrine conquest and Egyptian,304;under Greek rule,306;foreign, penetrate the land of the Pharaohs, the alien faith whichfinally triumphed was Christianity,309RENAISSANCE. An architectural,308,309;Italian masters of the, owed much to the Græco-Roman school,311;colours in many old Egyptian works better than those in diversItalian frescoes of the,316;the Romans and the Italian masters of the,321RER'ET. Goddess; evil influence of Set and,101;a form of Isis,101;equivalent, Taurt,175;identified with Draco,181RESH'PU. An Egyptian god borrowed from Semitic Asia,276;Syrian god, associated as one of a trinity with Qetesh,279;his cult in Egypt,280;chief centre of worship, Het-Reshp,280;in Syria regarded as a god of war,280;corresponds to the god known by Phœnicians and worshippedin Cyprus and Carthage,280RE-STAU. Hidden things in,57;the other world of Seker,57RHAMP-SI-NI'TES. The story of, handed down to us by Herodotus,237-240;Egyptians duped by,240RHAMP-SIN-I'TUS, KING. Reference to,194;SeeRhampsinitesRHE'A. Equivalent, Nut,64;reference to,102RHIND. Scottish archæologist,38RHYS (pron. Reece), PROFESSOR. The Celtic beliefrethe namebeing the 'soul,' and,258RIGHT SPEAKING (MAĀ KHERU). Term applied to a certain formula whicha magician once found effective and which had to be always repeatedexactly,261RO'DIN. Reference to the sculptor,315,323RO'MAN-S. Pantheon; reference to deities in,19,20;oracle of Jupiter-Ammon consulted by,142;Ptah identified with Vulcan by the,144;plebeians; reference to,195;cult of Sarapis extended under the,287;period; cult of the crocodile lasted far into the,291;Italian masters of the Renaissance, and the,321ROME. Professor Sergi of,34;history of, traced through Egyptian history,37;cult of Isis flourished in,80;worship of Isis took an orgiastic character in,84;the Theban priests much sought after by travellers from,305ROSELLINI. His expedition to Egypt,38ROS-ET'TA STONE. Came into British possession 1801,37;decipherment of the,38;progress not made in reading of hieroglyphic writing until discoveryof the,185;its lingual inscription consisted of fourteen lines of hieroglyphs,thirty-two lines of Demotic, and fifty-four lines of Greek; bycomparison and decipherment, Egyptian alphabet discovered,and clue found to lost language,186RUD-DID'ET. Wife of a priest of Ra,202,204SSAA. God of the sense of touch, appears in boat of Ra,181;son of Geb; personification of intelligence, human and divine,181OTH. Archangel; mentioned with Osiris and the Greek gods,309SACKVILLE, LADY MARGARET. Reference to lines written by,326SAF'EKHT. The goddess of learning; the palm-leaf the symbol of,298;the sacred tree in the 'Great Hall' of Heliopolis and,298SA'HAL. Island of,154;worship of Anqet centred at,156SAHARA DESERT. Reference to,33SAH-RA. One of the three children of Ruddidet,203;name of second King of Fifth Dynasty and,205SAÏS. Reference to, by Herodotus,56;centre of Amen-Ra at,142;Lady of,164;Neith, goddess of,246SAÏTE.1. Recension; chapter ofBook of the Deadrecitedon special occasions,57;reference to,113;date of,114.written upon coffins and papyri,114.2. Period, reference to,152,184;the last, of Egyptian art,319,320;incursions of the Persians, Greeks, and Romans during the,319;Egyptian artists of,319;edifices of—the pronaos of Komombos, the temple of Isisat Philæ, the kiosk of Nectanebu, the Mammisi and templeof Horus at Edfû,319,320;structures, influenced by foreign ideas,320;paintings of,320SAK'HE-BU. Lord of,202SAK-KA-RA. Equivalent,Saqqara,37;Maspero at,113SAL-CA-MAY'HUA. Indian writer; tribal origins and,10SAMOTHRACIAN. Mysteries; Hecate and,175SAN'E-HA. Story of,190,191SAQ-QA-RA. Pyramidal building copied at,24;pyramid of Menkauhor at,26;Assa mentioned on tablet at,26;equivalent, Sakkara,37;Seker, god of death, at,57SAR'A-PIS. The Grecian equivalent, Osiris-Apis,287;Greeks ascribed the attributes of Hades to,287;in Egypt and Greece regarded as the male counterpart of Isis,287;the cult of, in Britain,287;known to the Egyptians as Asar-Hapi,306;worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians,306;to Greeks,deceasedbull took form of,306;Ptolemy, surnamed the Saviour, and the Legend of,307;another version of the legend,307,308;Soteles and Dionysius sent to Alexandria to remove the statue,307;