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of human bodies and animal heads." According to Mr. Good- 

 win, this god represented Chnoumis — his own fabrication — for 

 Xvou/ii:;, Xvu/j.6c!:, is the corrupted word Rcn-noirq!, the good 

 generator, as we shall see below. Since the ram was called d.i7V. 

 (G. ^. p 59, 233), we have the word ^X (El), the mighty God, 

 the Allah of the Arabians, and hence the same name was trans- 

 ferred to the D''^X (Elim) and ^''^^a (Elilim), the mighty plane- 

 tary gods. See St. L. T. vol. iv. i. Consequently, the human 

 figure (^A.jw.) with the head of the ram signifies the Mighty (El) 

 One, the Creator. 



The added crown, i]^: (nop), elatio, gives .... lord, and 

 the ostrich feathers, A\.ek.oi, ancient jA-ev^i, signify jo (mag), ptey-ai^ 

 mag-nus, corruptly j^vhuj, the great (lord). This crown does not 

 signify n^ as Ch. imagined, but nb. G. yE. p. 43, 52S. Hence 

 the R. S. Ix. expresses ivh6, dominium, by the same Egyptian 

 crowns rvjv di^co /.at zr^v y.d.Tco -^copav. See PI. xix. No. 410, a. 

 The ostrich feather maoi, ancient a\.a.ri (p. 203, i), is not a mi- 

 metic symbol of a feather, but stands very often for ja.otri, signi- 

 fying JJD (mag), divinus, corruptly jahu» (G. ^E. p. 64). See PI. 

 xix. No. 410, b. It is therefore a gross error of L. to take the 

 two ostrich feathers in Gensler's "Thebanische Tafeln der Stern- 

 aufgenge," Leip. 1S72, for "the two feathers of the giant," instead 

 of the two ctihiti leonls^ Md>.^i, ancient av.*-*i. See PI. xix. 411, a. 

 The same feather signifies (R. S. vii. xii.) god in j?d-c\ot-ht, yo- 

 ^Hni, temple. PI. xxx. 413, 414. 



The so-called crux ansata represents the human brain upon a 

 table, as will be seen in T. B. PI. xv. c. 28, and, standing for the 

 letters ank^ signifies first the soul, and then the synonym d.va.y.-Q^ 

 lord, king, and, with the article t, queen. See PI. v. 53, xix. 

 411, b. For oins signifies vita, anima, as the Hebrew -]JX, '•SJN, 

 IjrtJK (anok, anoki, anachnu), and the corresponding Coptic a-jvor, 

 ekitoH, evidence ; for these words properly signify tny soul^ our 

 souls. 



The sceptre in the other hand of El, called a-peni, crepojfi, scep- 

 trum, diadema, forms, together with the preceding crux ansata, 

 the words, the lord of the sceptre, or diadem, crpHiu, the latter 

 being alphabetically written krp. PI. xxx. a, 412. 



b. The next figure to El, ornamented with the aforesaid crown 

 fjlJ, and preceding the imperial family, is obviously the gov- 



