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the same Mars is expressed by the tapir, signifying Mars in the 

 Turin papyrus (L. i. 5), The following planet $ (iv. 4) is rep- 

 resented by the sparrow-hawk, signifying $ on the Turin Mane- 

 tho (i. 4). The next is ^ , expressed by the letters tr nn, perhaps 

 «po uektie, the juvenile planet. This being doubtful, it is a fact 

 that all other copies put in the same place "Thoth" (v. vi. vii. 2), 

 the common term for Mercury. The first planet of our row is 

 called mnt^ JAone ^o, the pastor of the world — which obviously 

 denotes the sun, because, in the parallel places, it is expressed 

 by the well known pupil, signifying the sun in numberless places. 

 Finally, the last of the 7 planets, the moon, is expressed by the 

 same ostrich feather by which our Turin papyrus signified the 

 moon in L. i. No. 2, as we have seen. At present every intelli- 

 gent man can see with his own eyes what Lepsius's seven solar 

 deities properly signified, namely, the usual row of the seven 

 planets, as follows : 



h 11 % 2 ^ D © 



We proceed now to another question, viz., with what signs the 

 seven planets are conjoined on our four monuments. Previously, 

 it is to be remembered, all deities bearing a cup (arot) on the 

 head signified houses (*.tht, n'3, beth) of the planets ; and it is 

 self-evident that the Qllcodespotae sitting with a planet upon the 

 same sofa {lectica, xXiv/j^ express the signs of the Zodiac in which 

 the respective planets were then sitting. The planets, because 

 of their superiority, occupy always the first place on the right 

 hand. 



L. iv. 13, brings the sun in conjunction with ta??ih, called also 

 atm^ tarn: and this is the undisputed Coptic name of Virgo (njj), 

 viz. ^OTTMe. Consequently the sun stood at that time in ni;, i.e. 

 because the Egyptians observed planetary configurations on the 

 cardinal days (p. 421) in "K 0°. This result is confirmed in L. 

 vii., where trij, the house of the sun, is expressed by the sparrow- 

 hawk, signifying kuro^ the sun, as the Turin papyrus (ii. i) has 

 demonstrated. 



L. iv. II, calls the sign with which the moon was conjoined tb^ 

 the name of Capricornus, as we have seen above ; for tb is xm 

 (thava), dorcas. Since L. vii. 11, expresses the name of the same 

 sign by kb^ the Hebrew 'ny (kebi), dorcas, (Tieic, we see that the 



