her father." It is the day in which "the goddess Mehnit completes her work, so that the god Osiris may enter into the left eye." (By which the moon is meant.[133]) The day is also called the filling up of the sacred eye with its needs. The heavenly cow with the moon eye, the cow-headed Isis, takes to herself in the autumn equinox the seed which procreates Horus. (Moon as keeper of the seed.) The "eye" evidently represents the genitals, as in the myth of Indra, who had to bear spread over his whole body the likeness of Yoni (vulva), on account of a Bathsheba outrage, but was so far pardoned by the gods that the disgraceful likeness of Yoni was changed into eyes.[134] The "pupil" in the eye is a child. The great god becomes a child again; he enters the mother's womb in order to renew himself.[135] In a hymn it is said:
"Thy mother, the heavens, stretches forth her arms to thee."
In another place it is said:
"Thou shinest, oh father of the gods, upon the back of thy
mother, daily thy mother takes thee in her arms. When thou
illuminatest the dwelling of night, thou unitest with thy mother,
the heavens."[136]
The Tum of Pitum-Heliopolis not only bears the Crux
Ansata as a symbol, but also has this sign as his most
frequent surname, that is, ān[Greek: ch] or ān[Greek: ch]i, which means
"life" or "the living." He is chiefly honored as the
demon serpent, Agatho, of whom it is said, "The holy
demon serpent Agatho goes forth from the city Nezi."
The snake, on account of casting its skin, is the symbol
