SEYFFARTH—-LEEDS MUMMY-COFFIN. 357 
twice great Hermes of the Greek authors, was the inventor of 
the art of writing, and presides over it in an especial manner. 
His office was also to conduct the soul to the bar of Osiris, in 
Amente, and there to appear as its advocate with that deity. 
Thoth, in that mystic picture, faces in the opposite direction 
to the other deities, and is evidently in the act of making in- 
tereession to them on behalf of the deceased.” 
we have known that those Ptahs, Thoths, and 
Toree signify simply the planets, Mars and Mercury, and the 
Regarding the key to the astronomical Neyptian monu- 
mena, it was found in the following way. First, Diodo 
Siculus, and many other reliable authors, testy that, the 
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