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to the ancient twelve ages of the world. See the author's Chro- 

 nologia Sacra, p. 189. 



1. Planetary Configuratio?is coiiceniing the beginning both of the first 

 Canicular Period and the Egyptian Enipire. 



At present there are 14 monuments known on which the plane- 

 tary configuration represented on our Plate, Nos. iv. v. vi. vii., has 

 been preserved. They have been copied by Lepsius (Ueber den [?] 

 ersten gegyptischen Goetterkreis und seine geschictlich [?.] my- 

 thologische Entwickelung ; Berlin, 1851), and published, as was 

 natural, together with a totally wrong interpretation. Lepsius, 

 in fact, imagined those 14 deities to have been the I4(!) aborigi- 

 nal solar deities of the Egyptians. It is only strange how it came 

 to pass that those 14 solar deities disappeared since the year 3892 

 B.C., and finally, in 2780 B.C., coagulated to one clump. 



Since all these 14 inscriptions, apart from unessential points, 

 agree with each other, we reproduce only the most clear ones and 

 those in order to illustrate the first. 



No. iv. is to be found on the temple of Osimandyas (1730 B.C.) 

 at Thebes, which was, as Lepsius fancied, the temple of Mars. 

 But the group L. iv. No. 16, is to be spelled knk and not kns^ 

 because the onion was called kari, and not sari^ as Champollion 

 imagined. Moreover, it is true that the Etym. M. s. v. Xcov^z 

 says, Tov ' HepaxAr^v (faac Xcova Ikyzadai : but Hercules is not 

 Mars but the Sun, and Chon difters from Chons. In short, knk 

 is our king ; Ger., Konig ; Swed., kung. See the Dictionary of 

 the immortal Webster, s.v. king. 



No. V. ornaments another temple of Thebes of the same age. 



No. vi. is to be found in Burton's Excerpta Hieroglyphica, vol. 

 i. PI. 15. 



No. vii. is the engraving on the Turin and Paris cubits, pur- 

 posing to remember that this cubit was the same that Menes 

 brought from Babylonia into Egypt in 2780 B.C. 



In the first place, everybody notices (L. iv.) the 7 planets, 

 according to their natural order, conjoined with 7 signs of the 



Zodiac ; for the Turin papyrus, as we have seen (p. ), shows 



that k6 (No. 10) was Saturn and Osiris (No. 8) was Jupiter. The 

 name of Mars is expressed by the letters krhti, planet, or deus 

 terribilis^ Roirpo, ^ot€, which is confirmed by 1. vii. 6, where 



