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BUTO , the See also:

Greek name of the See also:Egyptian goddess Uto (hierogl. W'zy.t), confused with the name of her See also:city Buto (see See also:BuSIRIs). She was a See also:cobra-goddess of the marshes, worshipped especially in the city of Buto in the See also:north-See also:west of the See also:Delta, and at another Buto (Hdt. ii. 75) in the north-See also:east of the Delta, now Tell Nebesheh. The former city is placed by See also:Petrie at Tell Ferain, a large and important site, but as yet yielding no See also:inscriptions. This western Buto was the See also:capital of the See also:kingdom of See also:Northern See also:Egypt in prehistoric times before the two kingdoms were See also:united; hence the goddess Buto was goddess of See also:Lower Egypt and the North. To correspond to the See also:vulture goddess (Nekhbi) of the See also:south she sometimes is given the See also:form of a vulture; she is also figured in human form. As a See also:serpent she is commonly twined See also:round a See also:papyrus See also:stem, which latter spells her name; and generally she wears the See also:crown of Lower Egypt. The Greeks identified her with Leto; this may be accounted for partly by the resemblance of name, partly by the myth of her having brought up See also:Horus in a floating See also:island, resembling the See also:story of Leto and See also:Apollo on See also:Delos. Perhaps the two myths influenced each other. See also:Herodotus describes the See also:temple and other sacred places of (the western) Buto, and refers to its festival, and to its See also:oracle, which must have been important though nothing definite is known about it. It is See also:strange that a city whose leading in the most See also:ancient times was fully recognized throughout Egyptian See also:history does not appear in the See also:early lists of See also:nome-capitals.

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Thebes, however (which See also:lay in the 4th nome of Upper Egypt, its early capital being Hermonthis), it eventually became, at a very See also:late date, the capital of a nome, in this See also:case called Phtheneto, " the See also:land of (the goddess) Buto." The second Buto (hierogl. 'Im•t) was capital from early times of the 19th nome of Lower Egypt. See Herodotus ii. r55; Zeitschr. f. ¢gyptische Sprache (1871), 1; K. Sethe in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, s.v. ' Buto "; D. G. See also:Hogarth, See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies, See also:xxiv. 1; W. M. F. Petrie, Ehnasya, p.

36; Nebesheh and Defenneh. (F. LL.

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