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be our chief object. We can only make the negative assertion that it 

 can not possibly denote a particular deity, a particular sacrifice, or a 

 particular period. Almost the only other supposition is that it must 

 denote a particular ceremony. Was it, perhaps, the sprinkling three 

 times with the aspergill ? Or are we to think of the three steps which 

 the priests had to take 'i The chief part of the glyph is the day sign 

 Oc, which, to be sure, means the foot, therefore, perhaps, also a step. 

 Some one once suggested a " third order of priests ", of which, how- 

 ever, nothing has ever been known. In any event, this communication 

 will supply acceptable material for the final solution of the question. 

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