The illustration of the amulet of the double dux Ansata, represents 

 the female principle at the top in the shape of a ring (which has the 

 same meaning- as the winged disc, cup, and shell, or Concha Veneris} ; 

 the male principle in full vigour on the right side in the shape of a 

 cross (male organ of generation in the original) ; the ucprolific male 

 principle of infancy on the underneath side, also in the shape of a cross 

 (infantine male organ in the original) ; and the act of generation on 

 the left side, in the shape of a clenched hand, with the thumb bent 

 across the back of the first finger. 



The illustration of god incarnate with man represents the saviour of 

 the world 2OTHP KO2MOY as a cross, or phallic symbol (an erect 

 male organ in the original), which forms the beak on the head of a 

 cock, the symbol of the rising sun, the whole resting on the shoulders 

 of a man, symbolical of the incarnation of god and man. 



The illustration of the amulet in Mr. Townley's museum represents 

 the female principle at the top, in the form of a circle, under which is 

 the victorious sun-god of the vernal equinox, in the shape of a bull's 

 head with a cross or phallic symbol (erect male organ in the original) 

 on either side of the mouth, the whole being emblematic of the sexual 

 union of the powers of heaven and earth, and the consequent regene- 

 ration of nature at the spring equinox. 



Mafuca, whose portrait is given in the following pages, was a female 

 ape from the Loango coast, placed in the Dresden Zoological Gardens. 

 Hartmaim, in his " Anthropoid Apes," describes her as being " 120 cm. 

 in height, reminding us in many respects of the gorilla. The face was 

 prognathous ; the ears were comparatively small, placed high on the 

 skull, and projecting outwards ; the supra-orbital arch was strongly 

 developed ; the end of the nose was broad ; and there were rolls of 

 fat on the cheeks." K. Th. von Siebold also classed her as a gorilla ; 

 but Bolau and A. B. Meyer opposed this view; while Bischoff, judging 

 by the structure of the brain, thought she was a chimpanzee. Now it 

 is pretty generally believed that she was either a cross between the 

 gorilla and the chimpanzee, or else a member of a distinct species of 

 anthropoids intermediate between the gorilla and the chimpanzee. In 

 Hartmann's account of Mafuca we read that she was " a remarkable 



creature, not only in her external habits, but in her disposition She 



hardly obeyed anyone except Schopf, the director of the gardens, and 

 when in a good humour she would sit on his knee and put her muscular 



