t, with 50 heads, and an hundred hands, to
signify _Neptune_ with his men in a ship of fifty oars; _Thoth_ with a
Dog's head and wings at his cap and feet, and a _Caduceus_ writhen about
with two Serpents, to signify a man of craft, and an embassador who
reconciled two contending nations; _Pan_ with a Pipe and the legs of a
Goat, to signify a man delighted in piping and dancing; and _Hercules_ with
Pillars and a Club, because _Sesostris_ set up pillars in all his
conquests, and fought against the _Libyans_ with clubs: this is that
_Hercules_ who, according to [302] _Eudoxus_, was slain by _Typhon_; and
according to _Ptolomaeus Hephaestion_ [303] was called _Nilus_, and who
conquered _Geryon_ with his three sons in _Spain_, and set up the famous
pillars at the mouth of the _Straits_: for _Diodorus_ [304] mentioning
three _Hercules_'s, the _Egyptian_, the _Tyrian_, and the son of _Alcmena_,
saith that _the oldest flourished among the _Egyptians_, and having
conquered a great part of the world, set up the pillars in _Afric__: and
_Vasaeus_, [305] that _Osiris_, called also _Dionysius_, _came into _Spain_
and conquered _Geryon_, and was the first who brought Idolatry into
_Spain__. _Strabo_ [306] tells us, that the _Ethiopians_ called _Megabars_
fought with clubs: and some of the _Greeks_ [307] did so 'till the times of
the _Trojan_ war. Now from this hieroglyphical way of writing it came to
pass, that upon the division of _Egypt_ into _Nomes_ by _Sesostris_, the
great men of the Kingdom to whom the _Nomes_ were dedicated, were
represented in their Sepulchers or Temples of the _Nomes_, by various
hieroglyphicks; as by an _Ox_, a _Cat_, a _Dog_, a _Cebus_, a _Goat_, a
_Lyon_, a _Scarabaeus_, an _Ichneumon_, a _Crocodile_, an _Hippopotamus_, an
_Oxyrinchus_, an _Ibis_, a _Crow_, a _Hawk,_ a _Leek_, and were worshipped
by the _Nomes_ in the shape of these creatures.

The [308] _Atlantides_, a people upon mount _Atlas_ conquered by the
_Egyptians_ in the Reign of _Ammon_, related that _Uranus_ was their first
King, and reduced them from a savage course of life, and caused them to
dwell in towns and cities, and lay up and use the fruits of the earth, and
that he reigned over a great part of the world, and by his wife _Titaea_ had
eighteen children, among which were _Hyperion_ and _Basilea_ the parents of
_Helius_ and _Selene_; that the brothers of _Hyperion_ slew him, and
drowned his son _Helius_, the _Phaeton_ of the ancients, in