430 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCK. 



Anubis, ancient Hanubis, Mercury, because this planet is com- 

 monly invisible, nuptus^ being too near the sun. The famous 

 astronomer Kepler, as is known, never did see Mercury. For the 

 rest, see the writer's Astron. y^g. p. 98. 



No. 6. Since Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury have been 

 represented in Nos. 14, 12, 10 and 8, and since the child Horus 

 signifies the Sun, whilst Thoth bearing the crescent is the Moon, 

 as we shall see directly, everybody understands that the regal 

 figure under consideration must of necessity be Saturn, the rest- 

 ing planet. The latter is expressed by the well known titular 

 name of Busiris, added below that name. Champollion reads 

 the same name " Osortasen," but no such name has been men- 

 tioned by the ancients. The fox, called fic^ujoirp, sounds b and 

 not 0. The letters tsn contain the words tojuj li, constiUttus, and 

 hence the whole is '■'■task n Basur" — designatus Busiridis^ i.e. 

 Sapientis, Saturni ; for the root of Busiris is -iD2 (bakar), cogitars, 

 sapere, and these faculties appertain to the prerogatives of Saturn 

 (Astron. M-g. p. 59). Besides, the king Busiris is mentioned by 

 Diodorus of Sicily ; his name occurs on many ancient monuments. 

 Eratosthenes paraphrases his titular name by Thysimares, and, 

 according to him and the Tablet of Abydos, he was the third pre- 

 decessor of the XVIIIth dynasty, about the year 2000 B.C., 700 

 years after Menes. In short, this Busiris, the wise one, was an 

 emblem of Saturn, the god of wisdom. 



No. 4. It is well known that Horus, the sun (Plate I. 1. i, i.), 

 being represented as a child, signified the sun emerging from 

 the winter solstitial point. The famous allegory of the Egyptians, 

 the pagan Hebrews (Ez. viii. 4), and other nations, sets forth that 

 the sun (Osiris, Thmus, Adonis, etc.) died on the shortest day of 

 the year, but that instantly Horus, the son of the dying king was 

 born for ruling the world instead of his father. Thus this boy 

 (No. 4), adorned with royal insignia and nursed by Anuke,- is 

 obviously the sun standing in the winter solstice. The annexed 

 royal name is that of king Horus, the ninth king of the XVIIIth 

 dynasty, born about 1800 B.C. The full name of Horus, copied 

 by Rosellini from different places on the same temple, will be seen 

 on 1. viii. 15, 16. The age of our Horus, moreover, is involved in 

 his own name,to-wit: on that day, July 19, 2780 B.C., a conjunc- 

 tion of H and d" took place, and this phenomenon returned every 



