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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ONOURIS , See also:

Egyptian En-huri, " See also:sky-See also:bearer," the See also:god of Thinis. Later identified with Shu (Show), who holds See also:heaven and See also:earth apart. PTAH, the See also:Hephaestus of the Greeks, a demiurgic and creative god, See also:special See also:patron of See also:hand-workers and artisans. Worshipped in See also:Memphis, he perhaps owed his importance more to the See also:political prominence of that See also:town than to anything else. He was See also:early identified with an See also:ancient but obscure god Tenen, and further with the sepulchral deity Sokaris. He is represented either as a closely enshrouded figure whose protruding hands grasp a composite See also:sceptre, the whole See also:standing on a See also:pedestal within a See also:shrine; or else as a misshapen See also:dwarf.

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