SEVFFARTH EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY. 67 



We come finally to another god of the Egyptians, difterenth' 

 represented on our theological monument. In the midst of the 

 twelve zodiacal deities, we notice the figure of a black beetle 

 moving a globe, and ornamented with the head of a ram (No. 58). 

 The latter, called ail, as we have seen (No. 1), expresses the 

 Hebrew i'N (El), the Arabic Allah (the mighty one), God. 

 Therefore the group personates the Almighty rolling the globe 

 of the heavens, the universe. For, in the first place, innumerable 

 anci' nt authors bear witness that the Egyptians and all other 

 ancient nations worshipped not only the seven Cabiri and the 

 twelve great gods, but also the Creator of the planets and the 

 signs, which is proved by many testimonials, as follows : 



Sanchojathon (p. 37) reports that the Phoenicians taught Siduc 

 (pnST, Kadiq, the holy) to be the progenitor of the Cabiri, the 

 planets. According to the Persians, a great king governed the 

 world by the instrumentality of seven ministers, the planetary 

 divinities. Porphyrins (Abst. iv. § 9) reports that the Egyptians 

 had in their temples different animals, because they revealed "Dei 

 in res omnes potentiam." Plutarch (Is. 377) says that the Egyp- 

 tian deities signified " the universal God, but in different ways," 

 and he declares that this nation "was in possession of the highest 

 and purest ideas concerning the Creator of all that exists." The 

 Greeks repeatedly mention " the father both of the men and the 

 deities." The same God the Romans called "Deus Optimus, 

 Maximus, mens divina," etc. The very same God was the Indian 

 " Parabrama, unrepresented by images"; the " Allvatur" of the 

 northern nations ; the Chinese "Changti" and "Hooang-changti*," 

 i.e. the highest governor; the Thibetan "Concion"; the Sicilian 

 statue with seven fingers ; the Scandinavian god holding seven 

 swords. Jablonskii Panthon (Prol. Iviii.) cites a passage where 

 the same god says: "Ego sum Lyra" (containing seven strings, 

 the seven planets). The ancient Arabians believed that God's 

 throne stands above the spheres of the planets, encompassed by a 

 serpent (the Zodiac), as Fleischer's Catal. MSS. pp. 506, 530, 

 bears testimony. 



Moreover, the monuments themselves put out of question that 

 the highest god of the Egyptians was the Creator of the world ; 

 for the sacred records (see my Summary of Rec. Disc. 1857, p. 

 63) pronounce as follows : "I am the God of the gods, the exalted 



