Note 136.3 — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST
Reading edition
Budge, Archæologia, lii. 425, 440, 539 sqq. The Egyptian gods merged into one another like the dissolving pictures of a lantern. This was probably in part the result of the union in one kingdom of a number of petty states, which were centres of worship of disparate though cognate divinities, and the consequent effort to synthesize these divinities and their worship, and in part the issue of philosophical speculation, itself doubtless influenced by political events.