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 The worship of the hawk, the vulture, and the ibis, had, then, preceded by many centuries that of the gods who correspond to the personages of the Hellenic pantheon. Rooted by long custom in the minds of the people, it did not excite the ire of the wise

men of Heliopolis or Thebes. The doctrine of emanation and of successive incarnations of the deity, permitted their theology to