12. TYPHON, the spurious son of Rhea, and Cro nus, was born on the third supplementary day, and married his sister Nepbthe. He is characterized by a red colour, and is supposed to have been a perso nification of the effects of scorching heat. He is also compared to the earth's shadow, as causing eclip ses of the moon. The celestial habitation of his soul was supposed to be in the Great Bear. According to Plutarch, his Egyptian names were Seth, Bohm or Bobyn, and tStrol the word Typhon of Greek origin.
13. Isis, 'sr, or Est, was supposed to be the off spring of Thoth and Rhea, born on the fourth sup plementary, day; she was also sometimes called the daughter of Prometheus. She is generally corapa red to Ceres, or the Earth, and is made the deity of fertility and of. maternal love. She was also esteem ed analogous to Proserpine, as the queen of -the lower regions, and the wife of Pluto; thus she is called • by Aristides, " the saviour and conductress of souls;" and, in some Roman inscriptions copied by Zoega, she is made " the guardian of the ashes of the dead." Horapollo says, that hew head was some times adorned with vulture's plumes; but Herodotus tells us, that she was represented with cow's horns, like lo; other authors however sq, that, after Ho rus, in revenge for his father's• death, had made Ty phon prisoner, Isis imprudently set him at liberty, and Horns, therefore, tore the regal diadem from her brow, but that Thoth or Hermes substituted for it a helmet made of a bullock's head. Her soul was
supposed to have its residence in the Dog star, the Sm.. of the Egyptians. Her dress was of many colours. She is sometimes compaged to the moon ; but this idea to be foreign to the thology, as well as to the genius of the Fsgyptian lan guage. She las also been somewhat arbitrarily con founded with Minerva by Plutarch, in speaking of the inscription of the temple of Ssis, • which con fessedly related to the Egyptian Minerva, who was indisputably the goddess Neith; although, in conse quence of this inattention, the " robe" mentioned in the inscription has been called the " robe of Isis," and the expression has been almost proverbially em ployed as denoting mystery and secrecy.