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of Sutu, and it is predicated elsewhere of many other divinities. As in mathematics _any_ point in space may be conceived as the origin of a given line or surface, so in Egyptian mythology any god may be rightly called the father of the gods. And for the same reason. The Day precedes the Night, but not more truly than Night precedes, or in mythological language _gives birth to_ Day. But we may begin at Daybreak, or at Noon, or at Sunset, or with the Sun or the Moon, or with the rising of the Nile or any other natural phenomenon which obeys an evidently permanent fixed Law.

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Footnote 11:

One of the names of the Uræus on the royal crown.

Footnote 12:

‘The Glorious ones’; see Note 1 on