She had adored the sun.
When Alexander came, she was fast falling into pantheism.
On a country to which in its political extremity the indigenous gods have been found unable to give any protection, a change of faith is impending.

The venerable divinities of Egypt, to whose glory obelisks had been raised and temples dedicated, had again and again submitted to the sword of a foreign conqueror.

In the land of the Pyramids, the Colossi, the Sphinx, the images of the gods had ceased to represent living realities.

They had ceased to be objects of faith.

Others of more recent birth were needful, and Serapis confronted Osiris.