114 Ohfervailons on the Zodiac at Detuhra. 



does the hawk, or revivH'cence of nature, with a dog's hcatl, 

 and the two units above the fame itar. Tlie two figures with 

 liars, to intimate the five months between the rifnig and fet- 

 tiniT Dog, introduce Libra' Tiie pedeital beneath the fcale, 

 uith the h\n on it, and a fitting figure, as if watching its 

 iliadow, under the index of the equinoftial bahmce, together 

 with the fun behind, and the other attendant figures, denote 

 the Thoth, or new year's day, beginning from that fign; 

 whilll the fourteen articulations in the tail of the dog will be 

 found to agree with the fourteenth year of the folar cycle, 

 concurrent with the lirlt lunar, when the fun entered Scorpio. 

 The hieroglyphics next fuccecding, chararterize again the 

 bcoinniniT of the year, for fuch are the hawk, crowned with 

 the lotus; the wolf, facred to the fun ; and the ccraftes, rifing 

 from an oar. The figures of the rifing and fctting liar are 

 intelligible as before. We now come to Sagittarius, an hie- 

 ro<rlyphic, compofed of a human body, with a bifrontal head 

 of a man and a lion ; the Nilotic plant, which indicates the 

 overflow, proceeding from the veil under which both are 

 united. The arrow on the bow is the firll beam of the year, 

 whili't the chefl, fore-legs, and body to the wing, belong to 

 Pecafus, or the horfe of the morning. The hind parts of 

 the^ wolf complete the reference to the new moon of Thoth, 

 commencing from the dawn. The two divifions on the wing 

 ferve to exprefs the diftinftion of the lunar and folar diflfer- 

 cnce, which anfwers to the eleven feathers, whilft the twelve 

 intercalations between the wing and tail of the wolf, on 

 which a raven is fcatcd, agree with the obtrufion of the 

 lunar intercalation on the common form of the folar year. 

 Over the wolf's tail is a flar of five rays, pointing at the di- 

 ftance between the moveable and fixed Thoth, whilft the 

 prieft, under the mafk of a hawk, the fynibol of a com- 

 mencing year, immediately follows, and, with an arrow, or 

 firll beam of the rifing ftar, flops the further progrefs of the 

 bull, which, to exprefs the 7nov'nig Thoth, has an hind-leg 

 joined to his head. This fymbol, indeed, with the two next 

 "that follow, is a certain key to the whole, inafmuch as they 

 diltinftlv mark the fixing of the firft of Thoth, the dog hold- 

 ino- the bull's leg by a chain of nine links, ending with the 

 ftar of five rays rxs before, whilft five of thcfc ftars, iurround- 

 ing the Taurine fymbol, decide their eftabliflied import. 

 The one between the horns intimates the original rife at the 

 firft of April in the Roman lunar year, at the apparent new 

 moon, that is, the moon on its fecond day, to which add 

 the intercalary month Mercedonius, and the difference is 

 obtained of the fun's entrance on the fign, April 20, which 



accords 



