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THE GOD MALOULI. 245
his mother (the goddess JNIouth), the feminine
j^ortion being amalgamated with his own essence,
which is at once male and female ; all the other
Egyptian gods are only varied forms of these
two constituent principles—they are merely pure
abstractions of the Great Being, These second,
third, &c., forms establish an uninterrupted
chain, which descends from Heaven and material-
izes itself into earthly incarnations and human
shapes. The last of these incarnations is that
of Horus, and this last link of the divine chain
forms, under the name of Horammon, the O of
the gods, of which Amnion Horus (the great
Ammon, the active and generating spirit) is the
A. The starting-point of Egyptian Mythology is
a Triad, composed of the three parts of Amnion
Ra, viz. Ammon (the male and the father), Mouth
(the female and the mother), and Khons (the
son). This Triad, having manifested itself upon
earth, is resolved into Osiris, Isis, and Horus.
But the parity was not complete, since Osiris and
Isis were brother and sister ; at Kalabschi, how-
ever, the final Triad, that of which the three
members resolved themselves exactly into the
initial Triad, is completed : Horus there bears
the title of husband of his mother, and the son
which his motjier Isis has borne to him, and
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