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KOTpo ^*.M (^Top n<vev 2COJA, the Lord of the great gods. For the 

 pullet (oevTioTi) furnishes ^okt, concinnare, and, being followed 

 by a man, concinnator. According to the Champollionists, the 

 pullet is <9, and the man symbolizes a god ; and then the nonsense 

 comes out that the Almighty was the god of the letter o. Allah 

 is great! is he not?— The Champollionists take the other legend 

 for rer nuter god^ which is again downright nonsense, instead 

 of " the Lord God of the great gods." 



The results of the present investigation are, in short, the fol- 

 lowing : 



1. The Egyptian deities were, first, the almighty Creator and 

 Governor of the world ; next to him, the seven planets and the 

 twelve zodiacal gods : nothing else. In the midst of the latter 

 the deified souls, the Manes, resided. 



2. The sacred animals, belonging to the ducatus of a god, sig- 

 nified the true or imaginary virtues of the latter. 



3. The Polytheistic religion of the Egyptians and all other 

 ancient nations originated in Babylon, prior to the dispersion of 

 the nations in 2780 B.C. 



4. The language (the " sacred dialect") of the ancient Egyp- 

 tians was not the modern but the ancient Coptic, related with the 

 Hebrew and kindred dialects. (See the author's " Rudimenta," 

 etc., L. 1826, p. 4, n. 7, and p. 13 ; "Unumstosslicher Beweiss," 

 etc., L. 1840, p. 14.) Innumerable groups and grammatical forms 

 were Hebrew roots. 



^. The Egyptian literature originated from the primitive 

 (Noachian) alphabet, and not from any ideologic writing. (Rud. 

 hieroglyph, etc., L. 1826, p. 15, n. 40 ; Gram, ^g. p. 4, n. 3.) 



6. The Egyptian literature was, in general, a syllabic writing 

 ("Rudimenta," p. 25, § 16 ; p. 39, § 35 ; p. 40, n. 107 ; p. 41, n. 

 no); regularly each of the 630 hieroglyphs expresses syllabi- 

 cally the consonants contained in the name of the figure. (Trans- 

 actions of the first meeting of the Germ. Or. Soc'y, 1S45 ; Gram. 

 JE.%. p. 8.) A great many syllabic hieroglyphs were first pub- 

 lished in 1833 (Astron. yEg. etc.) and 1840 (Alphabeta genuina, 

 etc.), and 1S43 (Grundsatze d. Mythol.), and 1844 (Leipz. Repert. 

 vol. iii. p. 300), apart from those in the "Rudimenta hieroglyphi- 

 ces, L. 1836. (See Leip. Repert. 1S52, n. 26.) 



