SEYFFARTH— ORIGINAL EGYPTIAN NAMES OF PLANETS. 415 



ipbvoz. The following deities, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, 

 and the Moon, are on our papyrus enumerated according to their 

 apparent velocities ; because the revolution of Saturn is the long- 

 est, that of the Moon the shortest. 



No. 6, the planet next to Saturn, Jupiter, is Manetho's " Oaiptc,-, 

 the old Hosiris. Indeed, the throne ^ice, the Hebrew XD3 (kisse). 

 signifies hs in Hisis and other words. The eye (Plutarch Is. lo, 

 355) expresses ar. Hence the figure of a man forms with the 

 preceding hs ar the name ^ivJA.Gpi*i, the sitter or judge, punisher. 

 No. 5, a man with the head of the Tapir Indicus, represents 

 Mars, the next planet after Jupiter. The tapir, a kind of hog, 

 the Greek aoQ^ the Latin sus^ the corrupted cujoi, expresses ss in 

 Sesos-tris and s in Osimanthyas (Gram. Mg. p. 62), because 

 ^dwAv. ujivy, the man of vengeance, characterizes the god of war. 

 Mars. 



No. 4, the sparrow-hawk, stands very often instead of the let- 

 ters kr^ in later times pronounced hr, e.g. in Horus (Gram. M%. 

 p. 69), expresses different words containing the same letters kr. 

 Hence we have here the word ^evj*. CGpe, acepe, iny (kahar), 

 ardere, fulgere, which are epithets applicable to Venus. 



No. 3, the well known ibis, an emblem of Mercury, Thoth, 

 expresses very often at, tt (Gram. yEg. p. 67), hence e^T-^HHTc, 

 invisibilis, because Mercury is commonly invisible ; and there- 

 fore, as the joined figure of an ape demonstrates, Mercury was 

 frequently designated by the figure of an ape (filD- kop, y.7^^Z0Q) for 

 expressing riDH (chapa), x^"> tegere, obsczirare. Comp. Euseb. 

 P. E. i. 9, p. 31 : Qcod^ ^EpfXYjV " EaXtjVZi; p.zxk(ppaaav. Syncel. i. 

 i72(Dind.): Wdiodr^z . . . ohzo:: koijirjvzijszac '^ Epfj-oxevrj^:. 



No. 2 signifies the Moon, because she follows Mercury. The 

 group itself, however, contains the name of king Menes, which 

 signifies the son of the Moon ; to-wit, the pedestal or step, com- 

 monly underlying the throne of Osiris, being called mori, scala, 

 very often replaced by an ostrich feather (j«.e.^i, ancient A*.d.*i), 

 expresses the word m (mag), magnus, related with ixkyat;^ j«.hui. 

 Grammat. ^'Eg, p. 93, No. 483. The sickle 6:0, magal, A\.iv*oTr^, 

 fjid-iaipa) expresses pdxap^ beatus, de functus, and then the deified 

 soul of the defunct. Hence the first part of this group signifies the 

 great Manes, i.e. Menes, the progenitor of the Egyptian nation. 



