414 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



" Auswahl y^gyp. Urkunden." He did not add one word of 

 interpretation or make use of its contents in publishing his 

 Egyptian Chronology, because it is easier to copy, moi-e or 

 less correctly, Egyptian inscriptions instead of translating them. 

 Other particulars will be found in these Transactions, vol. iv. 



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The hieratic papyrus under consideration begins the history of 

 Egypt, like the Greek Manetho, with the reigning of Vulcan, the 

 creator of the world. After him we see the names of the 7 great 

 gods, the Cabiri, i.e. the seven planetary gods, called regents. 

 The next class of Egyptian princes, Manetho's heroes, or 12 Se- 

 midei, are the 12 gods of the Zodiac, the wardens of the houses 

 of the planets. These two divine dynasties are then followed by 

 Manetho's human kings of the first Egyptian dynasty : Menes, 

 Athothes, etc. These mythological dynasties, moreover, are 

 divided from each other and accompanied by fabulous ciphers, 

 referring to their astronomical reigning times, which are irrele- 

 vant. The name of each king occupies a peculiar line on the 

 Turin papyrus, and in the same order in which they are repre- 

 sented on our Plate, line i., Nos. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, i. The same 

 names, hieroglyphically represented, will be found on Plate I. 

 underneath the hieratic groups. The following is their gramma- 

 tical interpretation : 



No. 7, which is the first regent of this planetary dynasty, cor- 

 responds to Manetho's Kpouoc, Saturn, and from Joh. Malala'' 

 (Cramer's Anect. Par. ii. p. 385) we learn that the Egyptians 

 called Saturn K7J8, from which the corrupted Coptic word chot, 

 CHIT (sev), time, originated, because t after vowels sounds v; and 

 k, being softened, becomes s.. Comp. ciou-, star, the ancient 33 

 (kab), star, apart from a hundred similar words. Besides xpovoc; 

 and ipbvoi; are notoriously the same words. Moreover, the gan- 

 der Keuecooic, the Greek y^QV^ sounds i, and not always, as the 

 ChampoUionists imagine, s. For our Plate 11. iv. v. vii. No. 10, 

 expresses the same word gander by the arms, and his substitute, 

 the egg, notoriously signifying^, k. (See the author's Gram, 

 ^g. p. 65.) Hence our group is to be spelled kb^ like yri^^ the 

 aforesaid name of Saturn, corresponding with the Hebrew and 

 Arabic f^D (kina-n), Saturn. The added figure of a man (pe>M) 

 forms the word the-man-of-time, and this is apparently /^oovoc, 



