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lined even in detail, but not sharply. Had this tal)let been found 

 at Palencjue it would have been taken as belonging to the Palentiue 

 material and style and culture. 



On comparison, the general resemblance of the Richardson 

 and (jest tablets will be at once seen. The Ciest tablet, Figure xii 

 like the Richardson, has the i)hnlius and testes as the base of its 

 representation, in the form of an inverted Tan cross. In place of 

 the human heads for the testes those in the Gest tablet are repre- 

 sented by the labyrinths of ducts belonging to the organ, with a seed 

 vesicle in the midst. These labyrinths unite by a ligament which 

 continued forms the shaft of the phallus. At the summit a waved 

 line or bar projects either way, in place of, and for, the waves of 

 water in the Richardson slab. In the body of the phallus the seed 

 vesicles are represented as developed to the stage of embryo foe 

 fuses, and these again, are projected forth, or over to the sides, and 

 are represented as in a further stage, viz., that of four weeks 

 growth, or 28 days. This is shown in Figure xiii by the sketch 



Figure xiii 

 of that period of development taken from a medical work. These 

 projected foetuses are four in uumbcr, two on each side of the 

 shaft, and are made to occujn' the four cpiarters of the divided 

 space, one to the quarter, in a similar manner with the occupancy 

 of the like quarters, or comjjartments, on the Richardson slab, by 

 the ])hases of the moon and the seasons of the year. It will be 

 seen that the positions occupied by the foetuses, or the men, 

 are always by contrast reversed. '-^^ From the fact that the male or- 



NoTtt.— Tliis reversal is evidently to sij^nity the doubh- sex. Tlie same tiling held in 

 Hebrew esoterisni, — tor, the word tor ";««?/'" contained the numbers 1 13 (diameter to a 

 circumference of 355), the lunar year in days , whereas the word, or name, " Tlii'-zvnmaii^' 

 <-ontained as the sum of its numbers 31 1, or the rrversr of "•man" : — tlie two, together, as 

 ]]^_^ii. being tlie division or unfolding ot the number -'2(1, which last was the sum of 

 the numiiersof the letters of the Hebrew expression Vsod Olnnm, or "■mj.':lerj' of ciu-- 

 ation^\ which was the name given to the location of the number 9 on the genitals of the 

 cosmic man ot Cabbalah (Ginsburg). 



