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'' Eaziff), and Manilius (p. 170) reports that Vesta's house was :::i ► 

 See the author's Berichtigungen, etc., p. 205. Consequently our 

 planetary configuration refers to the winter solstice, the natural 

 beginning of the year. Remember that all planetary configura- 

 tions were observed on a cardinal day preceding the epoch to be 

 fixed astronomically. Concerning the name of this goddess, I 

 spell it : nk ebol tate kor, nc2c efioTV. Tei.&.TG Kovpo, the mother of 

 the light of Horus. 



No. 5, Anuke, as we have seen, holding Saturn, is the sign 

 preceding the winter solstice ; wherefore, at that time Saturn 

 stood in the original sign of X, the house of Saturn. The name of 

 Anuke probably refers to the root nrijN (anacha), gemens, because 

 the sun was said to die in r.. Comp. Ezeck. 8, 14. 



No. 7 is again Saturn, ornamented with the head of a crocodile,, 

 the emblem of Saturn (1. i. 7). His name Sabak is co^xi) the 

 crocodile, originally pronounced sbk. Consequently 5, who is 

 never distant from the sun more than 29 degs., was on the same 

 day in K and not in r: ; for since the four deities (Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8) 

 are linked with each other, and because Anubis with Sabacon 

 precede Saturn in r. , it is evident that Mercury must have occu- 

 pied the sign Pisces, following Aquarius with Saturn. 



No. 13, the god bearing the solar disk, is apparently the sun 

 (1. ix. 11), the warden of the sun's house, Virgo. And this is 

 confirmed by the joined name of this solar deity ; for the sparrow- 

 hawk, frequently rendered by the letters kr (Gram. ^g. p. 69), 

 gives the word KOT-po, xupcoc^ and the solar disk within a halO' 

 (jrt.onc, comp. Gram.y^g. Nos. 465, 466), forms the word xupco^, 

 the lord of ^cpAve^n (a. KcpA\.».ii), together *.pd.R'A.iV.c.w.toii, Heracle- 

 opolis, where Hercules, the sun, was worshipped. Accordingly 

 Jupiter stood on the same day in Virgo, the house of the sun. 



The places of the sun in Pisces 0°, of Saturn in Aquarius, of 

 Jupiter in Virgo, of Mercury in Pisces, are in themselves sufficient 

 to determine the year in which king Horus followed his father 

 Amenophis II. ; for according to Eratosthenes, who counts from 

 Menes (2780 B.C.) down to Horus S50 years, the latter would 

 have reigned about the year 1830 B.C. According to the Tablet 

 of Abydos, which enumerates for the same time 33 kings, Horus- 

 must have ruled about the year 1790 b.c. Now, since Saturn 



