We can more easily understand the worship of the god Hapi, the Nile

We can readily realise that the Egyptians paid divine honours to the river that brought them all ble ings. It is true no special temples seem to have been erected to this god, but we find that gifts were presented to him everywhere, and he was worshipped as a god in hymns and was identified with other gods. La Sau aye , Science of Religion (trans.), p. 411. Hapitu. See Tusayan . Happy Valley, The. In Johnson's "Ra elas," a garden of peace where the Prince of Aby in i a lived. It was almost impo ible to get into or out of it. See Ra elas . Hapsburg (haps'bėrg; G. pron. häps'börg), or Habsburg(häps'börg), House of. [G. Hapsburg , Habsburg , orig. Habichtsburg , hawk's castle.] A German princely family which derived its name from the castle of Hapsburg (which see), and which has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, and Spain. The title Count of Hapsburg was a umed by Werner I., who died in 1096. Count Rudolf was elected emperor as Rudolf I. in 1273 and acquired Austria, and founded the imperial line which reigned 1273-91, 1298-1308, 1438-1740. Rudolf IV. became archduke of Austria in 1453. In 1477 the emperor Maximilian I. acquired the domain (except the duchy) of the ducal house of Burgundy by marriage with the heire Mary, and in 1490 had all the Hapsburg po e ions united in his hands by the abdication of Count Sigismund. His son Philip the Fair married Joanna the Insane, queen of Aragon and Castile. Their eldest son became king of Spain as Charles I. in 1516, and emperor as Charles V. in 1519; their second son Ferdinand received the Austrian crown, to which he added by election the kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary. The Spanish line was continued by Charles's son Philip II., and reigned 1516-1700. On the abdication of the imperial crown by Charles V. in 1556, he the imperial line, the last male representative of which was succeeded by his brother Ferdinand, who continued was Charles VI. On the death of Charles VI. in 1740, his daughter Maria The res a sticceeded to the Austrian inheritance by virtue of the pragmatic sanction (which see). She married Francis I., grand duke of Tuscany, of the house of Lorraine, who became emperor in 1745, and founded the Hapsburg-Lorraine line, members of which ruled as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition in 1806, and have since ruled as emperors of Austria. Hapsburg Castle. See the extract.