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the word nyi2 (paraoh) is not the Coptic o-rpto with the article 

 n, as Gesenius imagined, but the Hebrew yiD (pera), prin- 

 ceps. 



22. m kll^ i.e. J.V RtVooAe, 9"\o'\, nebula, obscuritas. Hence 

 the planets are said to be •' the celebrators of the Creator, the 

 Lord in darkness," i.e. the invisible Lord. According to the 

 Champollionists, the solar disk always denotes the sun mimeti- 

 cally, and then the nonsense comes out that the sun created both 

 the planets and itself. Query : how could the sun be called in- 

 visible, and how could it create the planets and itself? 



23. The figure of a rope, or rather of the traces for attaching 

 horses, the Hebrew in"' (yether, properly ither), expresses the 

 letters tr (xpc, Tpo, «^pe — facere, creare), consequently the crea- 

 tor. The very same "traces" represent tr in many places, e.g. 

 in the name Cyprus ("nri23 , Captor), as the Tanis-stone demon- 

 strates. Lepsius, in consequence of Champollion's "Key to the 

 Egyptian Literature," not knowing that regularly each of the 630 

 hieroglyphs signifies the two or three consonants contained in 

 the name of the figure, spells the group, signifying Cyprus, kpt?-. 

 which he translates "Phoenicia," and out of the letters binikah 

 (Phoenicia) he conjures Cyprus. Is that not wondrous? — The 

 appended eared snake is the Coptic sufiix e-j, suum, the Hebrew 

 "''"' (4/")- The whole passage then translates thus: (the seven 

 planets) "the great gods revolving within the vault of the 

 starry cave, the praisers of the architect, the invisible Lord, their 

 creator." 



24. We come now to the second class of Egyptian deities, those 

 of the Zodiac, the twelve houses of the seven planets, represented 

 in the midst of our monument. Diodor (ii. 30) says expressly 

 that the xofjtoc d^edl were twelve, of whom each superintends a 

 sign of the Zodiac and a month of the year. Further, Chaeremon. 

 an Egyptian priest (Jamblich. Myst. Mg.^ Prtef. p. 7) testifies : 

 "yEgyptii non alios ponunt deos, preeter vulgo dictos planetas et 

 zodiaci signa." In Jeremiah x. 2, we read: "Learn not the way 

 of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens ; 

 for the heathen are dismayed at them." Sanchanjathon calls the 

 signs of the Zodiac 6(pec^ &sa)u, alias termed TZfjoacoTia^ because 

 they represented the powers of the planets, their presidents, 

 ■OrAods.a7i6Ta.c. 



