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Egyptians, i.e. tlie mighty (I'Dr. Uabir). were the seven planets^ 

 as has been abundantly demonstrated in the author's Astronomia 

 ^g., and the mythological monument explained in these Trans- 

 actions, vol. iv. p. 55, has brought to light that the seven planets 

 were likewise symbolized by the sparrow-hawk. G. holds the 

 latter for an ideologic sign of "god." 



383. It is to be remembered that the ancients worshipped three 

 classes of deities, viz., the 7 planets, the I3 signs of the Zodiac, 

 and the 36 principal constellations near the Zodiac called Decani, 

 because each of them presided over ten degrees of the celestial 

 globe. Now the r3 signs of the Zodiac were termed Q-ija (panim)^ 

 o^'cfC, facies, 'fioacor.a.^ perhaps for the reason that they were the 

 houses of the planets, and, so to speak, faced the natures of their 

 presidents. Thus, e.g., the old PhcEnician historian Sanchunia- 

 thon reports that TaautoS (the wise man), who survived the 

 deluge, invented the postdiluvian alphabet of 35 letters, the same 

 which the Greeks, Egyptians, Indians, Scythians, etc., used; 

 established the alphabet while imitating the Oifiecc: &eio\j. At the 

 end of the deluge, says Sanchuniathon (Euseb. Pr. Ev. i. 10), 

 deo:: TdauTO^, uiur^ffdjusuo^ rbv o'jpapov, zwu dewv o^'S^c, Kpouoo 

 Ts xac Jaycoyo:; /.a: rojy Aotrzcijv^ dcsTUKcoazv zoh:; hfjoorhq rcov 

 azocy^dcov y^a()ay-7jijaz. Here il is apparent that the signs of the 

 Zodiac were called fades c/cornm. The interpretation of this 

 passage (Seebode, Jahn und Klotz's Neue Jahrbucher fiir Philo- 

 logie, 1834, ii. Sup. p. 504) has been put beyond question by 

 computations, according to which our alphabet was in fact deter- 

 mined at the end of the deluge. See the writer's " Unser Alpha- 

 bet, ein Abbild des Thierkreises," etc., Leipzig, 1834; "Unum- 

 staesslicher Beweiss," etc., Leipzic, 1S39. These results are at 

 present unexpectedly ratified by the Pompeian Tablet. For the 

 group 383, the eye, called o^l-'ec:;^ r. onno^ corrupted oHirne, a. 

 ^HRTG, calls the signs of the Zodiac o^£fC, the second class of an- 

 cient deities. G., follow^ing Ch's wonderful theory, discovers the 

 mimetic symbol of the " eyes," and thus the nonsense emerges 

 that the Creator of the world was stronger than the " eyes." — 

 Comp. 1\ B. 71, II, 17, 35, 165, 6, etc. 



384. See 34S ; G. ^-E. 113, 595. The Egyptian priest Chai- 

 remon (Porphyr. Ep. ad Anebon. in Jamblich. Myst. ^g. 



