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pio), is expressed by its most common symbol, the god Thoth, 
the well known Egyptian Mercury. He is represented with 
the head of Ibis, holding a papyrus-scroll, and a scepter bear- 
ing the image of the starry heavens, because Thoth is said to 
have been the inventor of Geometry, Astronomy, and the art 
writing. The subjoined legend contains the words Thoth, 
mone toto, nubt htor tout-oi kom-skai ; i.e. Thoth, pastor 
terraram, inventor divinarum imaginum scripture. As he is 
represented in the opposite direction in the house of Venus, 
the planet Mercury was, at that time, retrograde in the Sign 
Scorpio; and thus the position of the Sun in Sagittarius is 
confirmed, because Mercury’s distance from the Sun never 
amounts to more than 29 degrees. 
No.5. The Si Capricornus, the house of Jupiter, contains, 
on both sides, the well known image of the planet Saturn ; 
for he was, in Egypt, called Seb—i. e., xeavec, Saturnus,—and 
suished by two ostrich feathers and the following title, 
shot-eut htor, htor, htor; i. e., Saturnus, perse- 
. The same is said of the god Typhon, i.e. 
urn. 
ng tate, expresses the god Tatis, 
piter, (See my Astronomia Avgypt., p. 8399, No. 607.) That 
“eit of I 
other to the Sun 
s house of Mereury, the 
se of the planet M 
