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Ohfervations in Egypt. ^ gpp 



being ufually feen in a fitting inclined Pofture, as if cut fiiort by The Egypwan 

 the Legs, and was called Momphta, the fame with Emeph qj-^'^'^'I'"'-'- 

 Hemphta, ^s Kircker coujQ^uxes. The Kexo7rfo(r«';roy ' ', or Human J- '^^^"^7^" 

 Figure with a Goat's Head, exprefled, among other things, the^^^°^2^ 

 Conjund:ion of the Sun and Moon in the Sign ^ries. But when Dog's h^*^. 

 the Head of the Dog was affixed, then it was the Jimibis or 

 Hermes' \ reprefenting the Horizon'' and guarding the two 

 Hemifpheres. 



The Head of a Woman, joyned to the Body of a Lyon, wasK.^ sphmx. 

 called the »S/)fcA% being, in general, an Emblem of Strength', 

 united to Prudence. When fuch Figures were placed near the 

 Nile, they denoted the Inundation to fall out, when the Sun 

 palTed through the Signs of Le'o ' ' and f^irgo\ but when they 

 adorned the Portico's ^* and Gates of their Temples, then they 

 fignified, that the Theology taught and reprefented within,,. nv- 

 wascloathed in Types and Myfteries. The (^Jpis i«ejcxo^op^(^) ^-^^ serpenc 

 Serpent with the Head of a Hawk*, was the ^gathodamon of ^^ 

 the Thoenicians, and the Cneph^ {Kircher likewife calls it the 

 Thermutis of the Egyptians,) being fuppofedto carry along with 

 it greater Marks of Divinity ^ than any other fymbolicaL Figure 

 whatfoever. We fometimes fee an Egg, the Symbol of the 

 World ^ ifiuing out of it's Mouthy which the ^;'p/M^j- main- 

 tain to be produftive of the Deity Ttha, but the Greeks, of 

 Vulcan ; who were both the fame accorduie to Suidas, In 



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Pra:p. Evang. I. 3. p. 70. i-^ Hv AU iw hiyvTHovlh^Mi jin <Pfi tbte 04" * xfio^naffwTtov fih 7ov Ai'oe, 

 xi/i'oan£?(ro7rei' ror ^ihn?B> Epjani'j luu riv Flilut o^oi' -tfb^oy &c. Luc'ttm. de Saciif! 2 Vid. N^or. I 

 p ^9 J. Toy S-ioi' Tor nsg emoif KS.K'-.ufixiot Akoi/C/h Tn^tau^au(n wm \ycv'Tm. m^dKnv, 'ifj.tpiiVwvTi! 077 jraua- 

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 yilxKT^au&Ltav, oiav n^-mKivTuv )i.ai ifejKa^vw . QtJ/;. Scroui.. J. y. p. 4rj.- y ft>^vn •ntufiitd tinoiat 

 aiij&oKav ti.uriil( » Sjf^^' to fj.i\i atjua mv hiovTQf, to ij^tioaTrei' 3 e.v.^ci-7i\i i'^'naa. Jdim. ibid. I » N»<A» '^ 

 irdCoiTif <rA(X<uvoVTis * Kiovia y^i^ji * hreM JtA;®' fiV ^eov-ra }tKo/i4i®', ^lAfioca tSv aiaCaffiv 7» Nfi^is -TroieiTai. 

 Horap. Hierog. 1. 1. cap. 21. Inundationcm Nili * adumbrabanc, vcl per Lffoiiem incum- 

 bentem, vel per eundem huinana feu Virginis facie confpicuutrij eo quod h.BC inundatio 

 contingeret , Sole & Leone in /fidis five Virginis fignum intrante. /Chv/j. OBel. Pamph. 



p, 2^6. 3* U^ 7m 'tffuy -jaf ffjiiyfctf I'jrifiKaf Jsai'T?', af auyiy/MtTh:J\t (ropidW rrif Z',o\o}ia( ajJTziy lyoimf. 

 PL de /fid. & Oftrid. p. 3 J4. Aiyi/'jfjioi ©ej Tav hfav jAf trpiyyai 'iJfmToi, u( euviyfM-nl,}iis n <5*^' StS 

 A^yoif )y ijH?;< ovT®'. Clem. Strom. 1. y/. p. 66^^. 4 ioivmn jj 'ipiy Aya^v ^cujMvit KM'ijiy hfiaias ;^ 

 A/j*''^7Wi ^}/wptTnyo(Ml^avar lacfjv^aiTi cA' ai^Tw itfeotos Jw^aAw, j^ a^ to lafuKltiioif t» (spaxoy. Eufeb. PrcEpi 

 Evang. i.i. p.2ir. 5: To wfaTBy oy Sfi'oTKTti'. W. ibid. p.27. (J OSsi' »x &i iir^« to?; ciei w a/wh/sw 

 lfyianriA.t>7f, 0f [Aif/Mua re to intyTtt yivavTVt j^ 'sfeifJ(_0K7@' £)< erti/TM^ 70 cjw ffvyyun^waiwrnt. Pint. Symp. 1 2 

 p. 656. Epf<«ycv»« J>E 70 WO)- Tof M<^o;'. Porph)r. Caelum. eft telh; icem Vitellum terra; inter 

 ilia duo humor, quafi ilicinus (f in limum, f. in finum) clufus aeri, in quo calor. F^rro 

 apud Probum in Eclog. 6. Scol. Idol. 1. i. cap. j. 7 Toe 'j Sw to^tw, (kw)?') w tS sr,u«- 

 7»f i5reJJ«<&«i jiwi- wo/j l| K >fi'i'*<9tu 3*0!', Wtu^To; dejcrayepe^oi/?/ t^<f oi Ji E^Xwif H^'joy hjMlVtAitiy roaov, 



TO)- Ko<7tor Porphyr. apud £«/f^. Prxp. Evang. 1. 3. p. dp. $^ir i Hpoij©- ^ M^iJipiwt, ^ 

 ■xttfcii/ta It^if irii Mhi>,miv. Suid. Sufpicor vocem «>-«?» effe i*i-m auyM-my a e}J3 <:<?Krf/)/j vel ceneph, 

 qus notat alam, lubindc ctiam 7i ■/)fp»7iy alarum. Sic vocitarunt iioc numcn a Symbolo^ 

 quod ex Serpente & volucre componeretur. G. J. Vojf. de Idol. 



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