"Cynocephalus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interval of twelve hours, and in its own bark, the pale disk of the moon—Yauhu Auhu—followed the disk of the sun along the ramparts of the world. The moon, also, appeared in many various forms—here, as a man born of Nuit;[*] there, as a cynocephalus or an ibis;[**] elsewhere, it was the left eye of Horus,[***] guarded by the ibis or cynocephalus. Like Ra, it had its enemies incessantly upon the watch for it: the crocodile, the hippopotamus, and the sow. But it was when at the full, about the 15th ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero |
