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>The word Shai was also the Egyptian word for pig, in the Hellenic period, Shai was sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig, known to Egyptologists as the Shai animal
>This is Kneph, the good genius, or Agatho dæmon, the creative spirit and the type of the sun, of the Egyptians, one of the characteristics of whom was the serpent, probably the uræus or basilisk, the sign of power. According to Plutarch and Diodorus the name of the Egyptian Zeus signified spirit (πνεῦμα), which of course can only apply to Kneph. Champollion derives it from the Egyptian root nf (Coptic nef) to breathe. The word Chnubis differs from Kneph only in the accidental admission of the inherent vowel v instead of e, and of b in- stead of p, as spelled in the Gnostic monuments of the Basilidans, it would sound like Chnumis (Bunsen)
>A common inscription around this figure, or on the back of the stone, is the Hebrew-Greek CEMEC ΕΙΛAM, the eternal sun, and also another legend, ΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΒΡΑ, "Thou art our father." Another frequent type is Seth, the Egyptian Typhon or evil deity, the ass-headed god of the Semitic tribes, which gave rise to the calumny against the Christians that they worshipped the head of an ass
>As Mr. Sharp remarks, Basilides, the founder of the Egyptian sect of Christian Gnostics, being puzzled, as so many inquirers have been, with the origin of evil, and with the difficulty of believing that the Giver of all Good was himself the author of sin, he made a second god of the Devil, or the personification of evil, consequently we find the same Typhon, or god of evil, also figured as Nubi, the lord of the world, who is represented under the form of a griffin. On some of the coins of Hadrian we see also exhibited the Gnostic spirit of that age, in the representation of the antagonism of good and evil, as figured in the opposition of the serpent of good (Horhat, the Agatho dæmon), and the serpent of evil (Apophis/Typhon)
>The word Shai was also the Egyptian word for pig, in the Hellenic period, Shai was sometimes depicted as a serpent-headed pig, known to Egyptologists as the Shai animal
>This is Kneph, the good genius, or Agatho dæmon, the creative spirit and the type of the sun, of the Egyptians, one of the characteristics of whom was the serpent, probably the uræus or basilisk, the sign of power. According to Plutarch and Diodorus the name of the Egyptian Zeus signified spirit (πνεῦμα), which of course can only apply to Kneph. Champollion derives it from the Egyptian root nf (Coptic nef) to breathe. The word Chnubis differs from Kneph only in the accidental admission of the inherent vowel v instead of e, and of b in- stead of p, as spelled in the Gnostic monuments of the Basilidans, it would sound like Chnumis (Bunsen)
>A common inscription around this figure, or on the back of the stone, is the Hebrew-Greek CEMEC ΕΙΛAM, the eternal sun, and also another legend, ΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΒΡΑ, "Thou art our father." Another frequent type is Seth, the Egyptian Typhon or evil deity, the ass-headed god of the Semitic tribes, which gave rise to the calumny against the Christians that they worshipped the head of an ass
>As Mr. Sharp remarks, Basilides, the founder of the Egyptian sect of Christian Gnostics, being puzzled, as so many inquirers have been, with the origin of evil, and with the difficulty of believing that the Giver of all Good was himself the author of sin, he made a second god of the Devil, or the personification of evil, consequently we find the same Typhon, or god of evil, also figured as Nubi, the lord of the world, who is represented under the form of a griffin. On some of the coins of Hadrian we see also exhibited the Gnostic spirit of that age, in the representation of the antagonism of good and evil, as figured in the opposition of the serpent of good (Horhat, the Agatho dæmon), and the serpent of evil (Apophis/Typhon)
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