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the original zodiac with its signs, or houses, together with 
their planetary presidents, or lords of the houses : — 
I A.qua- Capri- 
SI6KS : Leo. Cancer. Gemini. Taurus. Aries. Pisces, j rius. corn us. Sagitt. Scorpio. Libra. Virgo. 
LORDS: Moon. Mercury. Tonus. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn. Saturn. Jupiter. Mars. Venus. Mercury. Sun. 
In the first place, we discern, while examining the mytho- 
logical figures on the coffin (see Plate II.), the twelve houses 
of the planets, the signs of the zodiac. For each side of the 
mummy-case contains ten houses, or little temples, which on 
many other monuments express the signs of the zodiac. To 
these must be numbered, as usual, the square on the head, and 
that on the feet of the mummy, which complete the twelve 
houses of the zodiac on both sides. Further, as the seven Cabiri, 
the supreme gods of the Egyptians, were the seven planets, and 
as their twelve great divinities were the lords of the twelve 
signs, and as the houses on the coffin contain each the image 
of a deity, it is obvious that each of these houses must have 
belonged to that god or goddess which stands in the respective 
house. Again, as some houses contain two, and even three 
astronomical figures, besides a god facing in the opposite 
direction, doubtless a planet moving in the opposite direction, 
from east to west ; it is evident also that some of these 
divinities must signify the planets, which stood at the time 
of the birth of the deceased, in certain houses or signs of 
the zodiac. 
The question now arises, which of these astronomical 
images expressed the seven planets, and which the twelve 
signs, the houses of the twelve great gods. All the mytho- 
logical, or astronomical figures, together with their names 
and insignia, occurring on the coffin, I had previously 
determined in my " Astronomia iEgyptiaca." 
The key to the Astronomical Egyptian Monuments was 
found in the following way : First, Diodorus Siculus, and 
many other reliable authors, testify that the Egyptians 
