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HAWK; SPARROW-HAWK ; AN EMBLEM OF RÅ, THE SUN-GOD
A symbol of the manifested Higher Self.
"The hawk stands for the Supreme Mind, and for the intelligent soul. The hawk is called in the Egyptian language baieth, from bai soul, and eth heart, which organ they consider the seat or enclosure of the soul." - HORAPOLLO.
"Races having no connection with the Egyptian have associated sun and sparrow-hawk. Homer, for instance,- Od, 15, 525,-calls the hawk the 'swift messenger of Phoebus.'" - WIEDEMANN, Rel. of the Egyptians, p. 27.
"A hawk was the symbol of God." - CLEM. ALEX., Miscel., Bk. V. 7.
"The soul of man was often represented by a hawk, the symbol of the sun-god. Why the hawk should have thus symbolised the sun is a question that has often been asked. The Egyptians did not know themselves; and Porphyry, in the dying days of the old Egyptian faith, gravely declares that it was because the hawk was a compound of blood and breath! . . . Originally it was only the sun god of Upper Egypt who was represented even by the Egyptians under the form of a hawk. This was Horus, often called in the later texts Horus the elder' (Aroêris)." - SAYCE, Rel. of Anc. Egyptians, p. 71.
The sun, blood, and breath are all symbols of the Divine Life.
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See Also
BA
BIRD (great)
BIRDS
BLOOD
BREATH
EAGLE
EGYPT (higher)
HIPPOPOTAMUS
HORUS
RA
SUN
WORD
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