Obfervations in Egypt. 4.07 



mifhheres of the World, were probably reprefeiited by halt Disks, t^- tiemir- 

 which,accordingasthecircularParts of them were placed upwards/^^^''^^^ >'^'f 

 or downwards, might denote the upper or the lower Hem'ijhhere. 

 A Tyram'td or Obelisk, i. e. an equilateral, or an acute angled ^'>""iids 

 Triangle with two equal Sides, denoted the Nature and'' i^^^^'^^ 

 Element of Fire ' ; but, by a right angled Triangle ', was un- p^^- 

 derftood the Nature and Conftitution of the Univerfe, the 

 perpendicular expreding Ofiri6, or the Male; the Bafis, Ifis, 

 or the Female; and the Hypotheneuje, Ort^s^i.Q. the Air or fenfible 

 World, the Offspring of them both. T\\t Mimdtt^s Hyl^us, ^^U'Woridrc- 

 Kircher calls the material or elementary World ', was typified ^"'^'"'''^^'"' 

 by a Square, each Side, (as in the Table ^ of the Jewip:) Taber- 

 nacle,) reprefenting one Quarter of it. 



But there was not only a Myftery couched under thefe and t-/'^ Pofiure, 

 fuch like Images themfelves, but the very Polture, Drefs, and'^^'^i^gfe'if 

 Matter of fome of them, w^ere not without a Meaning. For^wWAir 

 when Ifis, O/iris &c. are reprefented fitting, This is a Type ofsknng. 

 the Deity's being retired within itjelp ; or, that his Power is 

 firm and immoveable : as the Throne itfelf, when chequered 

 wdth black and white, might be emblematical of the Variety 

 of fublunary Things ^ When the Deities and Genij ftand up- standing. 

 right, as if they were ready for Aftion, but, at the fame Time, 

 have their Legs placed clofe together. This 7 is to reprefent 

 them gliding, as it were, through the Air, without either Let or 

 Impediment*. But, when the World is typified by a Human 

 Figure, w^th it's Legs in the fame Pofture, This is a Token of 

 it's Stability. No lefs fy mbolical was the Drefs of their Deities. 



I UufaiAS^ca 19 ICiMnouf, TH 77V£?f luina (amw/^f.) Porph. apud Eufeb. Prsep. Evang. p. 60. 

 2 hiyvPiiovs 3 av 71s ciyj^at im T^tylivav nm yJ.>Xisvy, (Mhim TaTM Tiii' n -rnvjis pi7it ofxoiouvTiti- * Hy^'^oy ovy 

 TW t^iv ®e»f of^af, all'ivi, -nvj ^im, heia, liv A iiojHyouattv^ iyu^oh iyyivu, j^ W ften Oa'ieiy us <tp;^)i', nv 

 Ji Uif as -^/o-jfjiv, liv li ii^^v a: ^'^Tif^i^ct. Plut. dc Ifid. Si Of. p- 373-4' 3 Mundus corpo- 

 reus, ex elementis conipo(itus, in quo piocefTus rerum fi: per lineas rev2:as, per quadran"-u- 

 lum fuit indigitatus a prilcis. Plat, in Alcinoo. cap.ii. & 12, apud Kircb.OEd. yEgpt. Clal'./. 

 p. 1 03. r»f S' oifj.ai einoi'a i Tfim^a cfiiAo?- (TetOTtpa'd' imfuS'oiAv)! -ma), Sepw, fUfnTuL^a^ \aa, yHuZvi, 

 Clem. Alex. Strom. \.6. p. 474. 4 Menai' h iaujcf, a^mf -li y^^^tSr^ fi^Knai <r»(Acumr, Iamb. SeA. 7. 

 cap. 2. J Oi mtAoio/ t^a.].iv tzv /^ia y^^^ovTu, ©gj«- tmfAcuveiV euiiviiTov n Sta /iyitfjiiy. yfppollud. Ka.^-nu 

 Ji, li iffiuoy >} Aivii^iat cuyiTlouiyQy. Porph. ipud Eufeb. Praep. Evang. p.<Ji. 6 Qui mundihabe- 

 nas tenet, variegata Cede fplendidus. Orph. de Mercurio a.pud Kirch. Synt.i. p.py. Hinc, 

 arbitror, Grxci Mercurio virgam ex albo & nigro variatam attribuunt. il/id. 7 Kan^ 

 ^JlfffMccv ■nSioi^ 01/ KtfTB S^d^aiv 701V -mhlf iJi fUnStny ayuofiivai, d^a na-Ta via \ifMy dieioy if^ ofuir 

 i'S^im^Stv, T^iJ-vaymv f^tXcY tb •sSyj^'"' '" ^"t-m^iuaiAiay . S'lo cA! i^ tk d)JiKfMt-m laiy diay Aiyvyiiioi ij jdS'i 

 (tuyyxyns .9 a<7mi tyZvTis Imjiv. Heliod. y£th. Hift. I.3. p. 148. 8 hv^amaSii thy aj^hf^ rk yi>7iM, 

 tw< fjiyjn^of cvi/.g,£KiiK<>-m.i \-^y, aya'^y Ji fdxei mjSiv miiuMy iy.i7ii>y TtaCiS^M/Mvaiy, i-}ri Si -f K--frtA»f 

 ejidifny tj^ ;i^vayiv, S^g. 7b im (iiiaSMyfiy, 1^ a/gi TJy jay a.q>oy -ttohuAmy ipuriy, ^ 'iv erpaua^J^f KosfjU®'. 

 Eufeb. Prxp, Evang. p.dp. 



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