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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MIN , the

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GOD

god of

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COPTOS (Egyptian Keft, Kebto)

Coptos and Panopolis (

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AKHMIM

Akhmim), seems to have been

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early looked upon as a deity of the

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HARVEST (A.S. hcerfest " autumn," O.H. Ger. herbist, possibly through an old Teutonic root representing Lat. car pere, " to pluck ")

harvest and crops . Hiscult

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DATES

dates from the earliest times . Represented as ithyphallic, with two tall plumes on his

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head, the right

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ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm upraised and bearing a

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SCOURGE (Ital. scoriada, from Lat. excoriare, to flay, corium, skin)

scourge . In old times he is identified with

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HORUS (Egyptian Hor)

Horus: later

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Ammon was confused with him, and depicted in his

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IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

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