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sentation, has the form of the male human head, male because of 

 the chin-beard, the right one has the form of a female human 

 head, female because of the side locks or curls. Thus under this 

 form man and woman, or male female, is represented in one figure. 

 So, also, from the general character of the tablet, the male head; 

 with its abundance of hair, represents the sun, heat, and dryness, 

 or earth, while the female head represents the moon, coolness, and 

 moisture, or water. The male expresses active vitalizing energy, 

 the female expresses passive receptivity. A strand of hair from the 

 male head distinctly lines out the body or shaft of the phallus, and 

 doing so turns and then returns on a line parallel to the first, back 

 to the head. From the space occupied by the female head a line 

 extends up vertically through the length of the phallus, and issues 

 out of its summit in wai'cs of 7C'atcr to the right and left, forming 

 the expanse of the firmament. The space intermediate between 

 the testes or bar and the heavens is divided into four (quarters. In 

 the first, on the female side, and next to the head, is to be found a 

 shape like the crescent new moon. In the second, or the next 

 above and on the same side, is a shape as of the full moon. In the 

 third, on the opposite side at the top, is to be found a shape as of 

 the moon in her third quarter. And finally, in the fourth, or in 

 the compartment next to the male head, is to be found no moon at 

 all, or the dead quarter. It will be observed that the quarter next 

 to the male head contains a great (quantity of its hair, a fractional 

 portion of which extends up into the quarter above. The opposite 

 (piarter next to the head of the woman contains the rough outlines 

 of a duck. The (juarter above this shows a dead, leafless branch; 

 while the opposite quarter at the top has, beside the strand of hair, 

 a patch like a garden, and also waved curved lines as perhaps of 

 wind. It would thus seem that beside the four quarters of the 

 moon the slab is intended to represent the four seasons of the year. 

 Spring, with the germinating heat rays and garden ]>atch, summer 

 heats by the mass of hair or rays of the sun, autumn by the duck, 

 and winter by the leafless branch. It seems, moreover, that the 

 figure in the summer quarter formed by the strands of hair is 

 intended rudely to show the head of the goat sucker inverted, 

 with its wide mouth and very short beak, the mouth wide open, as 

 it is to be seen in the summer heats when catching insects. This 

 bird, or, as it is commonly called, the bull-bird, has very few spe- 

 cies or varieties; it is almost alone, exceedingly characteristic, and 

 markedly a bird of the summer heats. 



