MALLERY.] SUN AND LIGHT. 695 
The common Indian gesture sign for sun is: Right 
hand closed, the index and thumb curved, with tips touch- 
ing, thus approximating a circle, and held toward the sky, 
the position of the fingers of the hand forming a circle 
as is shown in Fig. 1119. Two of the Egyptian charac- 
ters for sun, the left-hand upper characters of Fig. 1120 
are the common conception of the disk. The rays ema- yo qq19—sun. 
nating from the whole disk appear in the two adjoining *sture sign. 
characters on the same figure, taken from the rock etchings of the 
Moki pueblos in Arizona. From the same locality are the two remain- 
ing characters in the same figure, which may be distinguished from 
several similar etchings for “star,” Fig. 1129, infra, by their showing 
some indication of a face, the latter being absent in the characters 
denoting “star.” 
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Fiq. 1120.—Devices for sun. 
With the above characters for sun compare the left-hand character 
of Fig. 1121, found at Cuxco, Peru, and taken from Wiener (h). 
In the pictorial notation of the Laplanders the sun bears its usual 
figure of a man’s head, rayed. See drawings in Scheffer’s History of 
Lapland, London, 1704. 
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Fig. 1121.—Sun and light. 
character of Fig. 1121, taken from Schooleraft (7). The 
sun’s disk, together oth indications of rays, as aes in 
the third character of the same figure, and in its linear form, 
the fourth character of that figure, from Champollion, Dict., 
constitutes the Egyptian character for light. 
Fig. 1122.—Light. Red-Cloud’s Census. This is to be 
compared with the rays of the sun as above shown, but 
still more closely resembles the old Chinese character for 
light, or more specifically “light above man,” in the left- 
hand character of Fig. 1123, reported by Dr. Edkins. 
The other characters of the same figure are given by 
Schoolcraft (s) as Ojibwa symbols of the sun. Fia.1122.—-Light. 
The left-hand character of Fig. 1124, from Proce. U. S. Nat. Museum 
The Ojibwa pictograph for sun is seen in the second \\\l \\ 
