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from those of the ger pd gods by means of a bushel-meas- 
ure (in Coptic bat), put upon the heads of the Ccodespota, 
expressing the Coptic © abe, eee which was necessary, be- 
po some images and n s, given to some presidents of 
the Signs or houses, ieeiebencted with those of certain plan- 
Pe being the CEcodespote, or aes of those same Signs, 
5. The place of a planet or two in a certain Sign was indi 
cated by putting the image and the pte of the planet in the 
egg of the image of the CEcodespota, which was naheh omit 
a Th case two or more planets stood in the same Sign, i i 
Was customary to specify the Decuriw, and even the sre 
within the limits of which the two or three anets, bein 
conjunction, appeared ; and therefore they put that lands 
particularly on the left side of a sarcophgus, in the house 
a planet, viz, that which was the warden of the Decuria oc- 
cupied by the planet. Supposing, e. g., the Moon and Sun 
stood in Sagittarius—the former, however, there in the Decu- 
tia of the planet Mars,—then the image of the Moon was not 
Th. mss Sign of Sagittarius, but also in a house of Mars. 
Teason of this curious practice was, that the astronomers 
to show what influence a certain planet would exert 
ol inno Sip as in a certain a Desai pretties 
er by another BS Box: it was believed that the origi- 
ia’ nfitence of a planet was equally modified while he stood 
0g house, or in the Decuria, of the eos planet. | 
‘planéta,ano ving from West to East, were -repre+ 
ctl = di walking in the anank of the Aerteds: 
ome he day of th ernal ‘autumnal equinox, _ 
that of the sy ol e mi or ntied,:) << e reason 
