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with Nos. 5, 15, 19, 26, 55, 59 c., 63 c. kf.) — Is it not strange in 

 the extreme that the Champollionists during a period of fifty-four 

 years did not notice these signs of plurality ; that they took the 

 pullet and the clew for o instead of hpt P They are, however, 

 excusable, because the "'great master" knew not at all the key to 

 the Egyptian literature, viz., the rule that each of the 630 hiero- 

 glyphs regularly signifies the consonants contained in the name 

 of the figure. Hence it happens that Brugsch's great Dictionary 

 enumerates some thousands of words which were substantives 

 and not verbs, moreover singulars instead of plurals. 



14. Above the heads of the seven Cabiri the following legend 

 is placed : axe and man — signifying the men of power. For the 

 axe (ocvTHp, A.«^ep, Ttopi) alone furnished inx (adir) mighty, but 

 the added figure of a man (^dww., the Latin homo) gives "the man 

 of power." (Comp. Nos. 25, 31, 39, 52, 59 e.f.^ 60 e.) Cham- 

 pollion and his successors imagined this human figure to repre- 

 sent ideologically a god. 



15. The handle of a knife or fan, the Coptic and Hebrew "MV 

 (anat), manubrium, expresses the letters ant and nt ', accord- 

 ingly, noT-Te, deity ; alphabetically, n : and hence we have the 

 word jiA.ev, magnus, plurally. (See Gram. JE^g. p. 116, No. 606.) 



16. Expresses kt, "revolving," as we have seen — Nos. 5, 121 

 27, 41. 



17. ?2 kbh, n RHne, in the vault, because the star {kb) furnishes 

 the word Rnne, fornix, arcus ; the Hebrew nJ, ^2 (gab, kap), the 

 vault ; T\2\> (kubah), tentorium cameratum, related with cavus and 

 RirnH. 



18. The starred cave, as we have seen in the premises (No. S). 

 The same word returns in Nos. 28 and 43. 



19. The figure with uplifted arms belongs to the root 2s.iee, 

 elevare, which is confirmed by the fact that it is replaced by the 

 letters ks (Gram. Mg. p. 38, Nos. 47, 48, 49). It is, moreover,- 

 a substantive owing to its plural termination D% 2c.oja., multi- 

 tude. 



20. The eared snake (oofi, oo'4, o^fc) involves the word otofi, 

 creator; the Hebrew mn , n^n (hivah, hijah), vivificavit, creavit. 

 (See Nos. 30, 44, 47.) 



21. The sun, being called 113 (gur), the corrupted op^, pjv, 

 represents the words oTpto, ROTpoi, xupto^, herus, Herr. Hence 



