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74 is not an image of the moon, but of the poppy, called 

 Mc-^A.n, the corrupted iev.n-JA.An, the flower of the moon ; for livn 

 is the corrupted ^Hn, (puTOv^ as Plutarch (Is. 37, p. 365) testifies 

 {Y_eu6acpc;;-(fUT6v ' Oacoioo^) , and Mi\n agrees with Mrjuvj^ ijo 

 (meni), moon, Mond, etc. Even the ancient Mexicans typified 

 the moon by the flower niohn (poppy), and our figure of the same 

 plant served to express Menes, G./E. p. 34, No. 14. G. takes, 

 of course, the poppy for an image of the moon, and the solar disk 

 for an ideologic sign of the sun. 



To. It was demonstrated a long time ago that several hiero- 

 glyphic figures expressed different sounds, particularly such as 

 represented different sexes. Hence the ram served to express f?/, 

 the Hebrew Ml (p. 23) ; the sheep, probably, if called fitorx., 

 Germ. Bock, furnished the letters b and bk^ e.g. in the Decanus 

 Abiccan ; the sheep signified .?/, a. kp (G. J£j. p. 59) : for the 

 ancient name of the sheep must have been kab or kap, because 

 the constellation Aries, on the Theban catalogue of constellations, 

 is ex^Dressed by kp (see PI. xxx. 425, a). From this ancient kb 

 the following word originated, b'-3D (keb-es), agnus ovis ; ^mfi, 

 a. SiHii, eccDOTT (esow), a. ecwfi, our sheep; Germ. Schaf, etc. 

 Accordingly this hieroglyph syllabically expresses o-roaci, a. 

 fitoati, Germ. Backe, bucca, related with fac-ies and fac-e. G. 

 discovered the sheep to have expressed " spirit," and it is not yet 

 clear by what hocus pocus the Egyptians brought out the notion 

 "spirit" from a sheep. 



76. See Nos. 68 and 72. G. brings out the monster "Shu," 

 because the feathers express 5 and the pullet o and ?^ according 

 to Ch. 



77. This group, containing the letters tfikh (see PI. i. a^ vi. 63, 

 vii. 72, 6^)^ furnished the word Avorx.^^, riTO (magak), cingere, 

 cingulum, compass. G. spells this group su^ and translates it 

 " dawn," probably according to his own dictionary. 



78. representing the beaming sun (T. B. 80, 2) and called 

 fioir6oT, expresses the letters bb^ e.g. in T^neT (hpp), Innoci^ Pe- 

 gasus on astronomical monuments. It stands synonymically for 

 ma (kafh), splendor (PI. xxix. 39S), mrpeT, fulgor (PI. xxx. 426, 

 a and b)^ Epiphanes, etc. G. discovered this figure to signify 

 " nostrils," which is very wonderful. 



