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also, that the R. S. and the T.^S. call the demotic letters only the 

 Egyptian literature proves that the hieroglyphic literature of the 

 Egyptians was of foreign origin. This is confirmed by Cassidor 

 (Chron. ad Theodor. Reg.) : "Obeliscorum prolixitas," says he, 

 " ad Circi altitudinem sublevatur, ubi sacra priscorum Chaldai- 

 cis Slants, quasi Uteris indicantur." Accordingly, the hierogly- 

 phic method of writing was not invented in Egypt ; it must have 

 existed prior to 27S0 B.C. (666 years after the deluge), in which 

 year Menes and the first inhabitants of Egypt settled in Tanis ; 

 it existed already in Chaldaea. And hence it comes to light that 

 the literature of the Chinese and Japanese, as I learned from the 

 late missionary Guitzlaft", was a syllabic writing like the Egyp- 

 tian, and that the said nations expressed by the figures of natural 

 objects the consonants of other words, which contained the same 

 consonants in the names of the respective images, just as the 

 Egyptians. 



203, See 171. The sign of plurality, nv refers to the preced- 

 ing substantive, as usual. As the image of mountains, according 

 to Ch., portrays the preceding group to be the name of a city or 

 country, G. ought to take his " Greeks" for a city, which would 

 have been nonsense, and therefore he prudently omitted to men- 

 tion this so-called determinative. 



204, The figure of a hamper, misD (klub), Germ. Korb, corbis, 

 signifies k in acoTV., auvaycof/] (T. S. xviii.), Se^po, "inx (achar), d'O 

 (T. S. XV.), het (R.S. x. 19), etc. See No. 35. G. brings out 

 "when," a new interpretation of our group. 



205, misrepresented by B., expresses the notorious letters hp(^ 

 i.e. ooRT, concinnare, creare ; for the first sign is another form of 

 the goblet, Nos. 6, 173 (see G..^. 117, No. 614), signifying h in 

 Abydos, a. Habydos (436). The eared-snake, ocr^, 6(pc^^ gives 

 ^, and the arm with the club, ^itc, signifies t or th in daxikocfc^. 

 G. discovered this group to signify " smite," probably according 

 to a dictionary of his own. 



206, 1103-. great, like Nos. 130 & 139, and not " thou," because 

 the pronoun never follows the verb. 



207, 208, 209. See 169-71. 210, See 84, 102, 114. 

 211. The sickle being called Av.cv;6o-r«y., like h^'O (magal). 



udyicna. Germ. Messer, it is natural that the letters tnkr and mk 

 should be expressed by the same image, e.g. in JO (mag), fiA.Ki, 



