April] SOCIETYOFBIBLICALARCH.EOLOGY. [i?oo.tionof rural life. I do not know howfar the ancient ' huntress' is
to be identified withthe better knowngoddessf 2 H ^X,/-*
Forthe edification of those wholovesuchidentifications,I will
justadd that the Egyptian Dawn-goddess Auset wonderfully re
semblesthe Doric atcv,Ionic^o>s-,and Aeolicn»w,andI mention
it for the purpose of showing whatsuchresemblancesare worth.
Far moreimportantand instructive are the epithets of the evOpovo*
and\pvad6povo<i'Hi«v.
* Transactions of Society of Biblical Archaeology,Vol.III. Thisgoddess,
whowasformerlycalledPasht,is now not less erroneouslycalled Somchitor
Sechmetby someEgyptologists,who in this way build mares'nestsfor the confusion
of greatscholarslike Lagarde ( Uebersicht iiberdie im Aramaischen, Arabischen
unci HebraischcnUblicheBildungder Nomina,p. 12). In the days of E. de Rouge
and Chabas it would havebeendangerousto ventureon so gross an error. Signs
originallydifferentare confounded in the hieroglyphic f, but when the phonetic
complementis |\ it has nothing to do with Sexet,andwhen the phonetic
complementsare ^ it has nothing to do with se\em. There is just the
samekindof mistake hereas when the metal J to^, Too* *s ca"ed uasem.
Thesign J is polyphonous, one of its values is uas, anotheris sent. Thereis no
connectionbetweenthe two,but somescholarspersistin mixingthemup into one.
All is not progress in Egyptology, by any means!346