420 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



p. 136. Comp. Plutarch Tim. p. 21 ; Nrjid-^ '^ Ellqviaxl:^ \ifir^vf2, 

 the female Mars, Bellona. 



L. xi. 4, spelled ujo"' ^(oAr, the Hebrew JiN (arag), denotes 

 Venus, the maker of texturus^ because she was the Qi^codespota 

 of n. 



L. xi. 3, spelled kr-t kt, probably o-rpo-T, (ROTppo) Riv-^, j?t< 

 (jada), the lord or queen of wisdom, clearly denoting Thoth, Her- 

 mes, Mercury, 25. 



L. ix. 6, spelled tbn nhpt, signifies the house of Jupiter, Aries ; 

 for TcfijiH is notoriously animal, Cmov^ and the globular vase («) 

 with the clew {hpi) furnishes the words n ^ottit {capuf)^ of the 

 regent. The clew (^tonx, ^3, bad), expresses very often nz, mem- 

 brum ; in full, hbt^ hpi^ and never o, as Champollion imagined. 

 Moreover, the planet Jupiter was the god of the kings (1. ii. 6), 

 and the insignia of Jupiter Ammon were the horns of a ram, his 

 emblem. Hence our group calls Aries the animal of Jupiter. 

 See my Astronom. ^Eg. p. 142. Besides, this group is not to be 

 confounded with that of L. iv. v. vi. 5, which signifies xin (thava), 

 Capricornus, the other house of Jupiter. 



Moreover, the Leeds mummy-coffin furnishes many other 

 names and emblems of the wardens of the 12 signs, for all 'the 

 names and figures characterizing a certain planet are Qllcodes- 

 potae in case they occupy a sign of which the same planet is the 

 warden. We specify the following : 



L. ix. 3, the acknowledged name and emblem of Mercury 

 Anubis is 55, the house of Mercury. 



L. ix. 4, the well known name and figure of bn nbt, fiune, phoe- 

 nix (and not, as Peyron imagined, hirundd)^ the Latin Venus, 

 called no-yfiT, textrix. The same by-name is given to Venus in 

 L. xi. 4., because she moves constantly from west to east and vice 

 versa, like the weavei-'s shuttle. Consequently this Venus repre- 

 sents the warden of Gemini. 



L. ix. 5, the house of Mars (8), as we have seen, is occupied 

 by a god bearing ;> lotus-flower (RHp-oc), which gives the word 

 2cop, mighty, an epithet of Mars. The added name furnishes, in 

 the next place, by the lute i^ni (nobel). the word ^11 (nibelj, the 

 despiser, and by the following letters amte (».MA.pTe), mighty, the 

 idea being "the destroyer of the miglity." 



