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The ostrich feather (j«.d.Hi), the equivalent of the step (jA.es.Ri), 

 expresses likewise mk^ and hence the name of the Moon, "Maja"" 

 {sancla), ''the mother of Mercury" (the ancient Moon), related 

 with Maga. That the ostrich feather, followed by the letters tkn^ 

 •\-KHii, i.e. Y'jvrj^ signifies the moon, will be seen on our PI. 11. iv. v. 

 vi. vii. No. 5. The following viper ARoipi, very often expressing 

 kr (Gram. ALg. p. 73, No. 326) gives the word ^i: (gul). xopof^^ 

 the corrupted ujHpi. The whole of the group, then, contains the 

 following sentence : the great Manes, the son of the Maja geni- 

 trix ; i.e. Menes, the son of the Moon. 



No. I, finally, must contain the name of the resting planet, that 

 of the Sun. Indeed, since the sparrow-hawk signifies a variety- 

 of words containing kr, as we have seen on p. 415, we obtain by 

 it the notorious name of the sun -iin (chur). x6po(;, 9p&. (Spa^), 

 ■^?.iO(: {x-jho!;), sol, (kol), &c. All these synonyms refer to the 

 root cepe, stcpe, ^p (kala). -ini* (kohar). iv (.jeor). lucere, splen- 

 dere^ urere. The appended scourge, K'.Vmi, furnishes the word 

 xopcif'rj^ the corrupted ujopn, princeps, by which the sparrow- 

 hawk of the Sun was distinguished from that of Venus, No. 4.. 

 Comp. Antonius Lib. Fab. xxviii. The following words tri and 

 sb^ belonging to the roots ©pe, in i(\viv). Ji??g-ere, creare^ and ujot, 

 validus, signify the sun, as the mighty creative power. 



These are, then, the primitive Egyptian names of the seven 

 planets, so long sought for, on which a new series of important 

 discoveries depends. 



In the next place, it must be borne in mind that the Egyptians 

 represented the planets not only by their common names but also 

 by their emblems, as has been explicitly demonstrated in the 

 author's Astronomia ^Egyptiaca ; to-wit, according to Egyptian 

 philosophy, each planet presided over a number of natural objects, 

 which were called its " ducatus." To the ducatus of a certain 

 planet all the animals, trees, and other phenomena, were num- 

 bered which appeared most related with the true or imaginary- 

 nature of the planet. Hence the different animals kept in the 

 Egyptian temples of different deities, and hence the strange gods 

 and goddesses ornamented with peculiar animal heads, plants^ 

 and the like, are to be explained. The same we find in Greece 

 and Italy, e.g. the eagle associated with Jupiter, the owl conjoined 

 with Minerva. 



