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letters //, expressed by the notorious mount {t) and the yard 

 (9HT11, the German Uof)^ furnish the word «^efii, T\1T\ (thebah) 

 caverna, cella, area. The whole group, therefoi'e. means " the 

 cave of the stai'red heaven within which the planets revolve." 

 Champollion imagined the yard to express /^, instead of kp 

 and p. 



9. The sparrow-hawk being in numberless places rendered by 

 the well known letters kr (PI. II. 59 b.)^ it signifies kr, and not, 

 as Brugsch fancied, Horus. Hence the man ornamented with 

 the head of a sparrow-hawk, hm kr^ i.e. ov\.vv si^op, signifies "the 

 mighty one," '-potens"; consequently the same which the ram- 

 headed figure (No. i ) represents, viz. T'DD (cabir), a plane- 

 tary god. 



II, 12. The star, called 3313 (kokab), the Arabic 33 (kob), 

 " globulus," corruptly cio-r (sib), gives syllabically i(5, " Stella"; 

 plurally, "the stars"; with the following kt (No. 5), "the revolv- 

 ing stars," i.e. the planets, rot, circumire. 



13 signifies by three suffixes the word "plurality," and this is 

 a very common usage of the Egyptians (see Todtenbuch loi, 

 titel 15, 17, 32, 70, 75),to-wit: the pullet ^vncoi, the corrupted 

 9&.ii6iTi, the Greek U7iZO.fj.ac, signifies the letters hpt, e.g. in oonx, 

 creare ; ^ort ^e.j«., the Creator (No. 52), as we shall see here- 

 after ; and hence it expresses the Hebrew m (both), plurality. 

 The Hebrew 1, by the way, is not, as Gesenius imagined, a hook 

 for fastening tents, for such trifles would never have been received 

 into a sacred alphabet; it is rather the eared snake (cerastes), 

 called ^oq, represented very often as standing. Hence this n\ 

 (both) is simply the Coptic ot^^vtc^, multitudo, signifying plural- 

 ity, e.g. in Nos. 61, d.; 59, c. ; 62, c. The very same plural ter- 

 mination ni (both) we find expressed by the clew (No. 13, 6.) 

 even in the same words, because the clew was termed ^ort, com- 

 pingere, convolvere. Moreover, it is an inveterated error that 

 ni (both) is the plural termination of feminines ; for numerous 

 words, being masculine, have the plural suffix m , and many femi- 

 nines have □"• instead of m, e.g. 3X (ab), father; n'l3S (abhoth), 

 fathers; D"'l"J (nashim), wives. Besides, very many substantives 

 are plurally terminated with both D"' and m. In short, our group 

 (No. 13) adopted three different plural suffixes, ot&.t&., acojA., and 

 OTTOT, whilst one would have been sufficient. (Comp. No. 13 



