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that the lion's claw must signify "beginning" for the reason that 

 it is the first part of anything, brings out "the beginning," in- 

 stead of 2C61JA., kettle (of the brain). Is that not wondrous in the 

 extreme? 



279 is obviously the Hebrew mo (mok), related with the Cop- 

 tic JA.&.R-M£R, cogitare, but, according to G., " observed." 



280 points us to the root ttot, currere, cursus, from which 

 perhaps the abbreviated words qcM, f\o, &o (canalis), descended. 

 jw.ek noT (locus currendi), therefore, signifies the place of running, 

 similar to Md>. n tco, ava. n ^A-e^TG, canalis. G. elicits "in accord- 

 ance with that," but nobody can tell for what reason. 



281. the notorious nablium, ^3J (nebel;, pitifully deformed by 

 B., in numberless places signifying no'-jpi, noT>qi, nr^i, respira- 

 tio. See G.yE. 95, 493. G. cunningly concealed that he could 

 not translate Nos. 28 1 & 282. 



282. See 5, 172, etc. 



283. altered by B., represents, clearly enough, cavitas oris, 

 together with the uvula, Tjll (chek), se.*, wrongly translated by 

 Kiicher, "collum." For the T. B. (Pis. Ixxv.-lxxviii.) specifies 

 a number of interior parts of the human body, and there we see 

 also the figure of the same mouth's hollow. Moreover, the figure 

 combined with a bowl, containing (in its midst or below it) a 

 kernel, served very often on the R. & T. Stones for expressing 

 TTavTJyupK;. To-wit, the cavity *a* signifies syllabically ^^, and 

 hence jn (chog), festivity, whilst the bowl ^l (No. 87) with the 

 kernel el gives i'//, i.e. cr'Ki'K, ^•'^3 (kalil), burnt-oftering. The 

 group is sometimes preceded by the letters /ipl, i.e. qonr, assem- 

 bling (on a sacrificial festivity). See PI. xxxii. 446, S. The poor 

 Ch't presumed this ligature of six letters to signify ideologically 

 a sacrificial convention, and yet G. brings out " hadst command- 

 ed," according to his unparalleled divination. 



284. Since the following groups specify other parts of the 

 mouth, we perceive at a glance that the letters n^ refer to iiA.2s.e, 

 the teeth. G. holds nk {tibi) to express tu^ thou. 



285. The notorious tail of a lion, S&.T, corrupted *ek.(T)e, c&.t, 

 Lat. Cauda, related with mj (gada), finis terras, or yp (qek), finis, 

 expresses with the following letters hi the word rw«ji, vagina, 

 swallow. As the tail, however, is the last part of an animal, 

 G. says it must signify " in the end." That is stupendous ! Is 

 it not? 



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