Egyptian mythology is of highly complex character, and cannot be considered apart from its racial andhistorical aspects. The Egyptians were, as a Hebrew prophet has declared, a "mingled people," and this viewhas been confirmed by recent ethnological research: "the process; of racial fusion begun in the Delta at thedawn of history," says Professor Elliot Smith, "spread through the whole land of Egypt." In localities theearly Nilotic inhabitants accepted the religious beliefs of settlers, and fused these with their own. They alsoclung tenaciously to the crude and primitive tribal beliefs of...