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the same name to the two ears, and only distinguished the terms apart 

 in writing, by drawing the ideograph of eyes in the one case and of ears 

 in the other. The pharaohs had two high officials, one called "his eyes 

 iu the south," and the other called " his ears in the north." 



But an'/ not only meant to live, to be alive, but had another deriva- 

 tive meaning, with a very remarkable application to the story of Enoch, 

 viz., to lift oneself, to rise up and stand, resurrection and ascension. This 

 meaning it retains in modern Coptic, as ONK, extulit, assurexit. An in- 

 scription at Edfu uses it for "the sun rising in the east." At Denderah 

 is a picture of a sacred boat, in which stands a lotus flower, from which 

 a snake is rising into the air, with the legend: "The snake ascends 

 (an/) from the lotus of the ship." On the sarcophagus of Besmut, at 

 Luxor, is read, an/-f, etc. : "He ascends like the ten stars." Another 

 inscription reads : " The stars ascend (an%u) in heaven." And at Esne : 

 " The stars ascend (an/u) to do their duty in the night." At Abydos, an 

 inscription to King Seti I, of the nineteenth dynasty (before the date of the 

 Exodus), addresses him thus: "Thou goest up ('/a-k) above the earth 

 like the bark of Orion in its season ; thou arisest (an/-ta) like the Star 

 Sothis" (see Brugsch's Diet., pp. 198, 199). 



The Hebrew tradition that the Hebrews came out of Egypt agrees with 

 the fact that Moses, Aaron, Hur (named together, Exod. xvii, 10), 

 Miriam, Achsaph (Caleb's daughter), Manassah (Joseph's son), and other 

 early legendary personal names, are purely Egyptian. The intercourse of 

 the two peoples was always intimate. The kings Asa, Amon and Manas- 

 seh had Egyptian names. Before the exile, the Hebrew colonies in the 

 Delta were important. The Book of Genesis was not necessarily com- 

 piled at Jerusalem. The story of Joseph and Potipher's wife was based 

 on the D'Orbigny papyrus. Adam and Seth seem to be the names of the 

 two chief Delta deities Atum and Set. Noah and his wife seem to repre- 

 sent the Egyptian divine duad Nun and Nunt. There is nothing startling, 

 therefore, in finding the an'/ in the name Enoch, whose legend forms an 

 episode in the antediluvian list. 



The occupation of Southern Syria by the Egyptians dates back to the 

 most remote times. The cartouche of Snefru, first king of the fourth 

 dynasty, builder of one of the great pyramids, is cut on the rocks of the 

 Sinaitic peninsula, at the turquoise and copper mines. The Hebrew 

 legend of the Anakim of the Hebron country gives Anak three sons with 

 Egyptian names, Ahiman, Sesai, Tolmai, fathers of the three tribes of the 

 Anakim. Whether there was any philological connection or not, the com- 

 pilers of Exodus seem to have seen the an'/, in the name Anak, and de- 

 scribed therefore the people as a giant race, analogous to the ghostly or 

 demoniac Rephidim. 



Remembering the large Greek element in the Delta far back in the cen- 

 turies before Christ, and the Greek tradition that as Cadmus came from 

 Phoenicia and settled Bseotia, so Cecrops came from Sais in Egypt and 

 settled Attica, bringing with him the goddess Neith (Pallas Ath6u6), we 



