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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous

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« Reply #60 on: November 10, 2009, 07:08:32 am »

To denote the moon, or the habitable world, or letters, or a priest, or anger, or swimming, they pourtray a CYNOCEPHALUS. And they symbolise the moon by it, because the animal has a kind of sympathy with it at its conjunction

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« Reply #61 on: November 10, 2009, 07:08:44 am »

with the god. For at the exact instant of the conjunction of the moon with the sun, when the moon becomes unillumined, then the male Cynocephalus neither sees, nor eats, but is bowed down to the earth with grief, as if lamenting the ravishment of the moon: and the female also, in addition to its being unable to see, and being afflicted in the same manner as the male, ex genitalibus sanguinem emittit: hence even to this day cynocephali are brought up in the temples, in order that from them may be ascertained the exact instant of the conjunction of the sun and moon. And they symbolise by it the habitable world, because they hold that there are seventy-two primitive countries of the world; and because these animals, when brought up in the temples, and attended with

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« Reply #62 on: November 10, 2009, 07:08:55 am »

care, do not die like other creatures at once in the same day, but a portion of them dying daily is buried by the priests, while the rest of the body remains in its natural state, and so on till seventy-two days are completed, by which time it is all dead. They also symbolise letters by it, because there is an Egyptian race of cynocephali that is acquainted with letters; wherefore, when a cynocephalus is first brought into a temple, the priest places before him a tablet, and a reed, and ink, to ascertain whether it be of the tribe that is acquainted with letters, and whether it writes. The animal is moreover consecrated to Hermes [Thoth], the patron of all letters. And they denote by it a priest, 1 because by nature the cynocephalus does not eat fish, nor

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« Reply #63 on: November 10, 2009, 07:09:08 am »

even any food that is fishy, like the priests. And it is born circumcised, which circumcision the priests also adopt. And they denote by it anger, because this animal is both exceedingly passionate and choleric beyond others:—and swimming, because other animals by swimming 1 appear dirty, but this alone swims to whatever spot it intends to reach, and is in no respect affected with dirt.
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« Reply #64 on: November 10, 2009, 07:09:17 am »

ootnotes

31:1

I. Ioh or Pooh, the Moon, a form of Thoth.

II. A common symbol of Thoth.

33:1 Sacred scribe.

34:1 De Pauw suggests—...—are borne down by the stream, but this alone swims to the spot it intends to reach without being carried down by the stream. The passage is very obscure.
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« Reply #65 on: November 10, 2009, 07:09:49 am »

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XV. HOW THEY DENOTE THE RENOVATION OF THE MOON.
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« Reply #66 on: November 10, 2009, 07:09:58 am »

When they would denote the renovation of the moon, they again pourtray a CYNOCEPHALUS in this posture, standing upright, and raising its hands to heaven, with a diadem upon its head; and for the renovation they depict this posture, into which the cynocephalus throws itself, as congratulating the goddess, if we may so express it, in that they have both recovered light.
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« Reply #67 on: November 10, 2009, 07:10:08 am »

Footnotes

35:1 From the temple of Edfou.—Sh. E. I. 46. 6. Vocab. 959.
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« Reply #68 on: November 10, 2009, 07:10:30 am »

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XVI. HOW THE TWO EQUINOXES.
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« Reply #69 on: November 10, 2009, 07:10:40 am »

Again, to signify the two Equinoxes they depict a sitting CYNOCEPHALUS, for at the two equinoxes of the year it makes water twelve times in the day, once in each hour, and it does the same also during the two nights; wherefore not without reason do the Egyptians sculpture a sitting Cynocephalus on their Hydrologia

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 (or waterclocks); and they cause the water to run from its member, because, as I said before, the animal thus indicates the twelve hours of the equinox. And lest the contrivance, by which the water is discharged into the Horologium, should be too wide, or on the other hand too narrow, (for against both these caution must be taken, for the one that is too wide, by discharging the water quickly, does not accurately fulfil the measurement of the hour, neither the one that is too narrow, since it lets forth the water little by little, and too slowly,) they perforate an aperture to the extremity of the member, and according to its thickness insert in it an iron

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« Reply #71 on: November 10, 2009, 07:11:01 am »

tube adapted to the circumstances required. And this they are pleased to do, not without sufficient reason, more than in other cases. They also use this symbol, because it is the only animal that at the equinoxes utters its cries twelve times in the day, once in each hour.
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« Reply #72 on: November 10, 2009, 07:11:10 am »

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I. The Cynocephalus upon the Nilometer, from the ceiling of the Ramesseion, where it occupies the central position between the last and first months of the year.

II. A water-clock in the Museum at Leyden.—Leemans.
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« Reply #73 on: November 10, 2009, 07:11:48 am »

XVII. HOW THEY DENOTE INTREPIDITY.

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« Reply #74 on: November 10, 2009, 07:12:00 am »

When they would denote intrepidity, they depict a LION, for he has a great head, and fiery eyeballs, and a round

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