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fxaxdfjio;, p.a:/M.(jizr^i;. The very same practice was observed in 

 Egypt ; for all its funeral monuments join to the name of a defunct 

 person the group No. 59 c.^ signifying the beatified Manes. For 

 the step, invariably placed below Osiris's throne, was called .m.oks- 

 and hence it expresses ftie word ^12 (mag), the Greek //i^'ac, the 

 Latin magis, magnus. The very same consonants are expressed 

 by the figure of the sickle, the Hebrew ^J?3 (magal), the Coptic 

 j«.e.*OT7\., related with ixu.y^atpo. and mucro. This pronunciation, 

 totally unknown to the Champollionists, is confirmed by Herodo- 

 tus, who renders the same group by Mcxepivo:;. For this is the 

 name of the king who constructed the third great pyramid near 

 Memphis, whose name and reigning years are very often men- 

 tioned on the monuments. Hence it comes to light that Miceri- 

 nus belonged to Maneiho's twentieth dynasty, and that the said 

 pyramids were not built, as faulty Lepsius fancied, during the 

 second dynasty, viz. before the deluge, which extended over but 

 " a small portion of our globe," but in David's and Solomon's 

 days. 



The following hieroglyph represents a lancet, called after the 

 aforesaid roots mucro^ which gives again p/jyApioz^ or rather, 

 owing to its plural termination, ixayAptoc. Hence the whole of 

 the group signifies the Manes among the Manis. The Champol- 

 lionists guessed this group to signify "justified," which is in direct 

 opposition with the names of the respective hieroglyphs. 



Add to this that all funeral sieles and papyri mention the tute- 

 lar god with whom the soul of the defunct was united in heaven. 

 All such funeral monuments commence with the words rot ^oht 

 (No. 60, c. d.) ; i.e. "he (or she) went to join the god N.N." A 

 number of funeral steles examined by me named the following 

 deities: "All gods" (No. 61, c/.) ; "the sun, the lord of both 

 countries" (61, c.) ; "the house of the sun" (62, d.) ; "Manetho," 

 the nourisher of all (62, c.) ; "Mah ham," the resplendent moon 

 (59, /".) ; ^'■kb" Saturn (59, e.) ; "Amun kere," the refulgent 

 Jupiter (6o,y.) ; "Hosr ham," Osiris (60, e.) ; "Ptah skr" (13?), 

 Mars generator (61, /.) ; " Neith mate," the mighty Neith (61, 

 e.) ; "Teb mere," Venus genitrix (62, y.) ; "Anubis," Mercury 

 (62, e.), etc. Hence it is evident that the human-headed kawks 

 signified the souls of the dead united with the deities of the 

 Zodiac. 



