INDEX.
Reading edition
A
Aāhmes, King, 339
Abd el-Latîf, 12
Abu Shahrên, 371
Abu Simbel, 16, 306
Abydos, mounds and temples at, 74, 99, 175, 214, 338, 393
sanctity of, 327
Achernar, 381
Adytum. See Sanctuary
Africa E., 373
Agni, god of fire, 7
Ahura-Mazda or Ormuzd, 6
Air, god of, 33
Āk, 176, 205
Amada, 311
Amen, confraternity of, 319
worship of, 189
temples dedicated to, 220, 222
Amen-t, Hathor Temple, 306
wife of Amen, 222
star symbol, 223
Amen-Rā, Hak of Pun-t, 347
obelisks to, 106
Southern worship, 319
temples of, 25, 75, 78, 99, 223, 351, 354
date of, 119
direction of axis of, 78
growth of, 188
restoration of,108
See also Karnak
Amenemhāt I., 77, 175, 338
Amen-hetep I., 221
Amen-hetep III., Mut Temple, 213
Karnak Temple B, builder of, 189
quarrel with Theban priests, 321
Amen-hetep IV., date of, 321
conservatism of, 320
leaves Thebes, 321
builds Tell el-Amarna, 323
Amenti, 35
Amplitude, 46
Amplitudes, of temples, 59, 67, 170, 309
at Annu, 168
at Denderah, 168, 210
at Karnak, 47, 160, 168, 171, 189
tables of, 305, 306, 311, 312, 318
Amru, description of Egypt, 230
Amsu. See Min
An, and god Anu, 363
Anaximander, 8
Ancestors, divine, 327
Annu, 74
grand priest of (title of Theban priest), 340
list of gods at, 329
Nile flood at, 226
obelisk and mounds at, 214, 316
temples at, 78, 94, 168, 175, 214, 309, 316, 326, 327
walls at, 76
worship at, 318, 319, 326, 359
Antares, symbolised by Serk-t, 329, 360
temples in Greece, 419
Anu, Babylonian, astronomical meaning for, 363, 365, 372, 377
Anubis. See Set
Ap, god of the waters, 7
Apet, 290
Apis, bull, also Hapi, 229, 330, 396
Apollinopolis Magna. See Edfû
Argus η, 374
Aries, first point of, 53
Arietis α, temples oriented to, Grecian, 420
Armant, Nile gauge at, 235
Asari, 372, 384
Asti, name of Thoth, 176
Aswân, nilometer at, 234, 235
distances of gauges from, 235
Nile flood, maximum time of, 240
to Rôda, Nile flood, rate of, between, 240
Aten, most ancient god, 321
Athene, temple of, 329
Athens, Parthenon at, propylæum of, 415
Atmu, Tmu, or Osiris, 25, 26, 295
Axis of temples, 169, 173
changes in, 163
Azimuths, 46
Azimuth compass, 67
B
Baal, hieroglyph for, 361, 362
Baalbek, structural origin, 92, 94, 367
Babylonia, ancient cities in, modern sites of, 86
Anu and Bīl, 365
kings of, 369
state of astronomy 300 B.C., 3
temple structures in, 367
unit of time in, 227
ziggurats, 367
Bast, symbolised star γ Draconis, 290
Bear, Great, represented by Thigh, 137, 146, 216
Little, represented by Jackal, 137, 146
Bel, temple of, 380
Berenice, road between Edfû and, 208
Bêrôssus, 381
Bes, 28, 368
Bīl, 363, 372, 377
Bilfinger, star tables, 409
Biot, ancient star places, calculation of, 129
Denderah, inscriptions, 139, 193
observing conditions in Egypt, 122
precessional globe of, 170
Ramesseum inscriptions, date of, 143
risings, heliacal, of Sirius, 200, 210, 249, 253, 254, 262
Boeckh, date of King Mena, 22
Botta, 87
Bouriant, 183, 220
Boussard, 111
Brugsch, Amen-Rā's ancestors, 355
book on calendars, 282
Denderah inscriptions, 141
date of Mena, 22
Rameses III., 221
Thothmes III, 189, 261
Usertsen I., 215
Edfû, temple at, alignment of, 179
Egyptian history, 344
furniture of sanctuaries, 112
Gîzeh-pyramids, 363
Hippopotamus, constellation, 216
Hyksos period, 339
inscription at Philæ, 261
Silsilis, 263
Karnak temple, 116
location of Pun-t, 348
pyramid, oldest, date of, 369
Sothic Cycle, 259
temple-foundations, 354
Bubastis, antiquity of, 82, 333
Isis temple at, 329
Budge, Dr. Wallis, 85, 208, 240
Bull, constellation of, pyramid period, 360, 403, 404
Bunsen, 22, 148, 384
C
Cairo, Nile flood, time of, 233, 240
Calah, ancient Nimrûd, 86
Calendar, Alexandrine reform, date of, 281
Egyptian, chief use of, 282
Canopus, decree of, 270
Canopus (α Argus), 280, 281
early observations, 312, 360
heralded autumnal equinox, 342
temples to, amplitudes of, 311
Capella observed at Annu, 316, 360
personified by Ptah, 318
temples to, amplitudes and dates, 312, 354
Capricornus, 372, 378
Censorinus, 267
Centauri α, temples to, 308, 351, 354, 360
Chabas, 173, 174
Champollion, 10, 11, 73
Cheops. See Chufu
Chephren, 327, 346, 369
China, early astronomical observations, 4
Chnemu, 35, 384
Rā, 25, 319, 385, 389
Chufu, 12, 204, 336
Churches, architecture, Scott on, 96
orientation of, 96
Colossi at Thebes, 78
Columbæ α. See Phact
Compass, Azimuth, 67
Constellations, early names for, 42, 133, 397, 399, 407
northern, called Set, 149
Country, double, meaning of, 345
Cow = Star Sirius, 218
Crocodile, variant of hippopotamus, 146
Crown, double, 345
Cubit, Babylonian, 370
Cults, change of, 300
origin of Egyptian, 371
northern and southern, 225
Cycle, Sothic, beginning of, 262
Cynocephalus ape from Pun-t, 348
D
Dakkeh, temple at, 341, 354
Darkness, gods of, 27, 28
Dashûr, blunted pyramid at, 233, 336
Dawn, flames of, Tefnut, 36
goddess of, Sechet, 31
gods, hymn to, 7
Isis, 29
names for, 7
representation of Nephthys, 31
risings at, 148
Declination, definition of, 45
Declinations, corresponding amplitudes, 170
Delta, Hawk-god of, 349
Denderah, example of second group of temples, 14
Hathor temple, 160, 193, 293, 319, 354
Isis temple, 193
date of, 197
oriented to Sirius, 304
inscriptions at, 141
meaning, 138, 173
Set worship at, 310
temples at, amplitudes, 168, 176
variants of Hathor in, 211
zodiacs of, 19, 134, 146
Deodorus, 12
Dêr el-Bahari, temple of, orientation of, 16, 212
cult of Hathor, 293
inscriptions at, 319, 348
De Rougé. See Rougé
Devas, 6
Djigan, mounds at, 86
Draco, constellation of, forms of, 137, 146
Draconis γ, temples to, 310, 354
Dubhe, Āk refers to, 176, 203
Āk, meaning of, 176
Dümichen, antiquity of This, 327
building inscriptions, 173
Denderah temple, 204
Edfû, temple at, alignment of, 179
Hathor, cult of, 294
Put-Ser, meaning of, 178
Dumuzi. See Tammuz, 372
Dupuis, 138, 143, 180, 379
Dur Sarginu, 86
Dyaus, 7
Dynasties, divine, 326
Dyotanâ, 7
E
Ea. See Ía
Earth, axis of, 126
emblem of, 33
god of, 7
shape of, 8
Ebers, antiquity of This, 327
old roads to Red Sea, 208
Rôda nilometer, 235
the Denderah crypts, 204
Ecliptic, obliquity of, 53
pole of, Babylonian observations, 363
plane of, 52
Edfû, early temple at, 311, 360
festival calendar at, 282
Hawk-god of, 349
inscriptions at, temple axis, 173, 179, 284
month-table at, 275
names for Hathor, 211
road between Berenice and, 208
temple of, 14, 106, 181
date of, 363, 376
orientation of, 178, 179, 180
Edkins, Sun-temple at Pekin, 88
El-Mamun, 12
Entenna, 369
Epacts (or Epagomena), 247
Epping, 3, 407
Equator, pole of, Babylonian name for, 365
Equinoxes, 54, 57, 62
established in pyramid times, 329
Eridu, 371
colonisation of, 374, 385
god of, 372, 377
Esne, feast calendars of, 282
inscription at, 284
Ethiopia, early history of, 345
exile of Theban priests to, 340
return of Theban priests from, 340
Eudoxus, sphere of, 139
Euphrates, god sacred to, 229
rise of, 85, 230, 267
F
Fayyûm, pyramids, 339
Fire, god of, 7
Fitz-Gerald, agriculture in Africa, 273
Flandin, plans of Khorsabad, 87
Foundation-stone, laying of, 173, 175
Foundations of temples, table of dates of, 352
oldest in Egypt, 354
G
Garstin, Nile rising, average rate of, 240
Gauges, Nile, distances from Aswân, 235
heights above sea-level 236
Gebel Barkal, 221, 347
pyramids at, 356
temples at, 356
Gîzeh, cult at, equinoctial, 85, 359
pyramids of, 12, 82, 336, 363
temples at, 82, 287
Globe, to rectify the, 44, 130
precessional, 170
Gnomon, 63
Goat-fish in Babylonia, 377
Gondokoro, 238
Grébaut, discoveries at Dêr el-Bahari, 319
Greece, orientation of temples in. See Chap. xxxviii. passim
Green Water, Nile, why it heralds the rise, 238
Green and Red Nile, difference of time between, 240
H
Habenben. See Sanctuary.
Hak, of Pun-t, name for Amen-Rā, 347
Hāpi, god of Nile, 147, 229
Harhouditi, 349
Harpocrates (or Hor or Horus), 24, 26
Harsiisit, 349
Harvest festivals, 233, 319
Hathor = Isis, 210
= Isis = Mut = Methuer, 212
change of representation, 301
connection with hippopotamus, 216
form of, ordinary, 217
generic symbolisms, meaning of, 291
goddess from Pun-t, 347
local cult of, 294
= Mut, 214, 289
name of Sirius, 196
personification of, 210
present views of, 32
represented by Dubhe and γ Draconis, 205, 214
rising of, reference to, 194
southern worship, 349
symbol of, 216, 290, 293
temples of 160, 202, 210
amplitude of, 176, 193, 210
at Abu Simbel, 306
at Denderah, 293
at Dêr el-Bahari, 193, 293
various names for, 211
worshipped in pyramid times, 329
Hāt-shepset, queen, 106, 212
expedition to Pun-t, 349
Heliopolis. See Annu
Herodotus, on temple of Tyre, 161
Hieroglyphics, decipherment of, 11
Hind, star-places, 170
Hippopotamus, connected with Hathor, 178, 216
constellation Draco, 137, 143, 146, 218
in pyramid times, 360
form of Taurt, 146
female, 216
hieroglyph for, 362
represents Mutât Thebes, 216
red, 362
variant of crocodile, 146
wife of Set, 146
History of Egypt, first blank in, 331, 337
second blank in, 339
north, first civilisation, 330
Holy of Holies. See Sanctuary
Hommel, 377
Horizon, definition of, 40, 169
Hor-shesu, 57, 74, 150, 215, 376
Horus or Hor or Harpocrates, 26
= rising sun, 293
= S. Egypt, 345
god from Pun-t, 347, 392
god of the Hor-shesu, 58
hymn to, 26
laughing, 149
meaning of, 148, 149
Northern, 349
myth of, description of, 148-151, 378, 390
red, 149
Southern worship, 349
temple of, 180
and Set, 149
= Set, 149
Hottentot Venus in Pun-t, 348
Hours (12) of day and night, 342
Hyksos period, date of, 338, 339
I
Ía, 372, 397
Annu, and Bīl, triad, 372
father of Tammuz, 372
legend of, 381
representation of, 384, 397
Ía-star, 380
Ideler, heliacal risings, 121
length of year, 244
India, temples in, age of, 2
Indra, 7
Inundation of Nile, 233, 234
Isis = Hathor, 210, 217
= Mut = Hathor = Methuer, 212
change of representation, 301
form of, at Saïs, 329
generic symbolisms, 291, 293
mythology of, complete, 293, 388
name for Sirius, 196, 210
nursing Horus, meaning of, 292
pyramid temples, 293, 329
present ideas of, 29
temples of, amplitude of, 82, 206, 210
Denderah, 83, 193, 210
date of, 197
Isis-Sati, 218
Isis-Sothis, 217
J
Jackal, constellation of, 137, 143, 146, 361
of Set, 146
Jensen, Ía-star, 380
Kosmologie der Babylonier, 360, 396, 397, 405
pole of ecliptic, early Babylonian observations, 363
reference to "Jackal," 362
Scorpio, 405
sun-god, Tammuz, 372
Marduk, 397, 405
Tiāmat, 397
the god Ía, 372
zodiacal constellations, 400
Jerusalem, temples at, equinoctial, 92, 367
Josephus, temple at Jerusalem, 92
K
Kahi, revelation of, feast of, 282
Kakau, worship of Apis, 330
Kali = Koloë, 351
Karnak, inscriptions at, temple axis, 173
observations at, solstice, 117
orientation of, solstitial, 72
north star, 354
temples at, 14, 75
temples at, amplitudes of, 160, 168
date of, Mariette, 113
description of, 100, 102
Amen-Ra at, 78, 99
Amen-Rā, temple of, date of, 119
temple B, 187, 189
amplitude of, 189
temple L, 115, 183, 185
date of, 116, 184
amplitude of, 189
Brugsch on, 116
temple M, 115, 183
date of, 184
γ Draconis, 184
temple of Mut (X), 187, 188, 213
builder of, 189
temple of Ptah, 317, 354
temple of Spica, 313
temple T, amplitude of, 189
date of, 186
temple V, orientation, 308
temple W, 187
Kemball, Sir A.,
agriculture of E. Africa, 273
Khem. See Min
Khnum. See Chnemu
Khons, or Khonsu, connection with Canopus, 296
how represented, 223
personification of, 296
Southern worship, 349, 393
temple of, 182, 223, 224, 296
measures of, 185, 310
Khons-lunus, 29, 393
Khorsabad, mounds at, 36, 87
Khu-en-Aten. See Amen-hetep IV.
Kirk, Sir John, on pile-dwellings in Central Africa, 348
Koptos, high road between Red Sea and, 208
Kouyunjik, mounds of, 86
Krall, quoted, 257, 263
change of signs, 269
festival calendar at Edfû, 282
king's reign, time of commencement, 259
length of year, 244
month Pachons, 284
mythology of the sun, 279
oldest month-list, 275
the week, 226
L
Lanzoni, variant for Hathor, 211
Chnemu, 384
Latitude, terrestrial definition of, 52
celestial, 52
Lenormant, 4
Lepsius, work on the monuments of Egypt, 73
date of Mena, 22
Eridu, 374
Karnak temples, 116, 187, 213, 306
Thothmes III., date of, 261
temple of Amen-Rā, 99
temple at Heliopolis, 75
the week, 226
Letronne, Denderah inscriptions, 138
Leverrier, 256
Lion, early Babylonian mythology, 402
Lockyer, W. J. S., calculation of star tables, 170
Longitude, celestial, 52
terrestrial, definition of, 52
Luxor, temple at, 166, 328
Lyons, Capt., R.E., measures at Annu, 76
Memphis, 317
Wady Halfa, 358
M
Maāt, relation to Rā, 32, 36
Makrīzi, Rôda nilometer, 235
Marduk = spring-sun, 373, 397
destroys winter gods, 377
myth of, 375
temple of, ceremony at, 366
and Tiāmat, myth of, 377, 378, 398
Mariette, Amen-Rā, temple of, growth of, 115, 188
Denderah temples, 193
Hyksos period, 339
Karnak temples, 113, 183, 184, 187
location of Pun-t, 348
Mena, date of, 337
modern Theban temples, 186
pyramids, 363, 369
Sothis, 212
Masnitiu or Masniu of Edfû, 349
Maspero, Baal worship at Memphis, 361
building of Annu, 77, 326
discoveries at Dêr el-Bahari, 319
divine dynasties, 392
the land of Pun-t, 347
length of year, 244
location of land of Pun-t, 347
origin of southern Horus, 349
priestcraft, 111
sanctity of Abydos, 327
Sirius in pyramid times, 209
Max Müller, age of Indian temples, 2
sunrise and sunset, 23
Vedas, 5
Mazzaroth, meaning of, 133
Medînet-Habû, 169
temples at, 163, 220
orientation dates, 221
Mêdûm, pyramid of, 335, 337
Memphis, Nile flood at, 226
pyramids of, 82, 83
temple of Sutech, 361
Baal, 361
Ptah, 248, 317
worship, 318
Memphis and Thebes, Nile flood, rate of, between, 240
Mena or Menes, 22, 230, 326
date of reign, 74, 115, 337
worship of Apis, 330
Menthu, 339
Merchet or Merech, 179
Meridian, astronomical, 69
magnetic, 70, 71
Meröe, 344, 347, 356
Mestha, god, 147
Mesχet = Thigh, q.v.
Methuer = Mut = Isis = Hathor, 212
Midnight, risings at, 148
Min or Khem, connection with Spica, 25, 297, 319
temple dedicated to, 297
Moncrieff, Sir Colin Scott, 117
Months, names for Egyptian, 233
Moon-gods, 28, 29, 389, 392, 393
Osiris representation, 137
worship, 379
stations, Egyptian equivalents, 37
Mosul, mounds of, 86
Mul-lil, 372
Mut = Hathor, 214
= Isis = Hathor = Methuer, 212
Hathor worship, 214
mistress of darkness, 344
represented by hippopotamus, 216
γ Draconis, 214
symbolised γ Draconis, 289, 290
temple of, 75, 182, 191, 294, 318
associated with Spica, 320
date of, 213, 214
Myths, Babylonian, 377
Egyptian and Babylonian, compared, 377
of Horus, 148, 390
of Marduk and Tiāmat, 375, 377, 378, 398
N
Naga, buildings at, 347
Naos. See Sanctuary
Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, 10
Naram-Sin, king, date of, 369
Naville, Horus, myth of, 148, 153, 390
Nebuchadnezzar II., ziggurat at Babylon, 367
Nephthys, 31, 35
in pyramid times, 329
Nergal, son of Ía and Duazag. 373
= spring sun, 373
= midsummer sun, 373
Neshem, 31
New year's day, variation in date of, 250
Nigidius Figulus, 248
Nile Flood, at Aswân, 240
at Cairo, 233, 240
rate of, 240
gauges, 235
gauge of, heights above sea-level, 236
at Armant, 235
at Aswân, 235
at Asyût, 235
at Suhag, 235
god sacred to, 229
inundation, effects of, 226, 232
red, 238
rise of, appearance of, 238
at Rôda, 237
average rate of, 240
description of, 241
festival of, 198
importance of, 228
indication of, 237
phenomena coincident with, 249
rate of, 240
warnings of, 239
green water at, why it heralds rise, 238
colour, origin of, 237
time of, rising, 85, 230
Nilometer at Aswân, 234
Nimrûd, mounds at, 86
modern Calah, 86
Ninib, sun-god, 375
Nissen on temple building, 173, 175
Nubia, mode of telling time at night, 342
Nuri, buildings at, 347, 356
Nu-t or Nu, 32, 33
double representation of 34
relation to Seb, 35
O
Oannes. See Ía
Obelisk, at Annu, orientation of, 214, 326
Obliquity of ecliptic, values of, 113
Observations of stars daily as opposed to yearly, 341
On. See Annu
Oppolzer, risings, heliacal of Sirius, 200, 249, 253, 268
Orion, constellation of, 137, 143
Ormuzd or Ahura-Mazda, 6
Osborn, the Nile, 232, 238
Osiris in Book of the Dead, 28, 35
hymn to, 26
mythology of, 296
representation of, 137
moon-god, 389
sunset-god, 25
southern worship, 349
temples of, 187
at Abydos, 338
bowls at, 248
direction of orientation, 82, 206, 393
Tmu or Atmu, 295
traced in Babylonia, 334, 377
= waning moon, 297
P
Padoramen priest, titles of, 340
Palmyra, temples at, equinoctial, 92, 94, 367
Parthenon at Athens, 164, 415, 416
Parthey, 216
Patah. See Ptah
Pekin, sun temple at, 88, 89
Penrose on Greek temples, 98, and chap. xxxviii, passim
Pepi, King, date of, 207, 262, 337
restoration of Denderah, 204
temple foundations, 354
Period, Sothic, 256
Petrie, Flinders, on Stonehenge, 90
Mêdûm pyramid, 335, 337
Tell-el-Amarna, 323
Phact (α Columbæ), 82, 354, 360, 381
Philæ, Chnemu at, 384
inscription at, 261
Isis-Sati at, 218
temples at, 73
early to Canopus, 311, 360
Pierret, hieroglyph of hippopotamus, 362
Pile dwellings in Pun-t, 348
Pisces, 378
Place, on Assyria, 86
Pleiades, temples oriented to, in Greece, 419, 424
Pompeii, temple of Isis at, 320
Precession, cause of, 124, 126
effects of, 23, 123, 157
model illustrating, 125
Priests, Theban, hatred of Set, 319
Prithivī, earth god, 7
Ptah, connection with Capella, 296
in pyramid times, 329
god of Memphis, 153, 318
personification of, 296
temples of, 248, 296, 317
Pun-t, Hak of, 347
land of, 347
possibly in S. Africa, 348
Put-ser, meaning of, 174, 175, 178
Pyramid builders, 325
-building in 12th dynasty, 338
Isis temples at, 329
of Dashûr, 336
Gîzeh, 82
Mêdûm, 335, 337
Sakkarah, 333
oldest, 369
orientation of, 333
Step, age of, 369
Q
Qebhsennuf, 147
R
Rā, eyes of, 280
hymn to, 27
manifestation of, 111
meaning of, 194
sun-god, 25, 26, 35, 227
Rā—Tmu—Horus, hymn to, 26
Rā-t, symbol of, 290
Rameses III., date of, 135, 184, 221
building of temple T, Karnak, 186
temple M, 115, 214
Ramessids, Thoth, sign of, in time of, 269
time of, year used, 263
Ramesseum, old month-table at, 141, 275
Ranke, 227
Red and Green Nile, difference of time between, 240
Redisieh, temple of, 208, 341
Set worship at, 310
Refraction, 48
Renouf, Le Page, 23
Rhamnus, temples oriented to Spica, 424
Rig-Veda, 38
Right ascension, definition of, 52
Risings. See Stars and Sun
Rôda, nilometer at, 234
rise of Nile at, 237
Rome, St. Peter's, 96, 102
Rosetta Stone, 11
Ross, Col., R.E., 237, 241
Rougé, De, on Hor-Shesu, 150
Silsilis inscriptions, 263
Mêdûm pyramid, 336
manifestation of Rā, 111
S
Saïs, 82, 329
Sakkarah, step-pyramid of, 333, 337
Samas, 377
Sanctuary, 102, 340
illumination of, 106
darkness of, object of, 109
Sargon I., King, date of, 360, 369, 403
Sarzec, M. de, discoveries at Tel-loh, 369
Sati, symbol of, 290
Sayce, Ann and Bīl, 364
Asari and Osiris, 384
Eridu, 371
Ía-star, 380
sun-god, Tammuz, 372, 393
Scorpion, constellation of, 143, 378, 399, 401, 403
known in pyramid times, 329, 360
Scott, Gilbert, on church architecture, 96
Se-ānχ-ka-Rā's expedition to land of Pun-t, 348
Seb, the god, 33, 35
Sebak-Rā, 25
Sekhet, goddess, 31
symbolised γ Draconis, 290
statues of, at Thebes, 290
Semneh, temple at, 311, 351
Seneferu, Dashûr pyramid, 336
King, title of, 346
Mêdûm pyramid, 335
temple foundations, 354
Senti, 174
Sept, 196
Serk-t = Antares and α Centauri, 358
in pyramid times, 329
symbol of, 290, 329
Sesheta, goddess, 29, 173, 175
Set, Sit, Sut, Typhon, Sutech, god of Darkness, 27, 145, 147
and Horus, 149
associated with γ Draconis, 302
conquered by Horus. See Myth of Horus.
emblem of, 28, 148, 362
feast of, 283
form of, 361
hated by Theban priests, 319
jackal of, 146
N. Egypt, 345
symbolised by northern constellations, 149
temple at Tell el-Amarna, 324
at Annu, 326
temples absent in S. Egypt, 371
thigh of, 146, 147
wife of, 146, 216
worship of, 215, 344, 361, 377
Seti II., 115, 185, 189, 223
Shabaka, 340
Shesu-Hor, 57, 74, 150, 215
Shu, 33, 36
Silsilis, inscriptions at, 263
Sirius-Hathor, 196, 212, 299
temples to, in Greece, 305, 422
Sit. See Set
Sky, god of, 7, 33
Smith, George, on temple of Bel, 380
Smith, Robertson, on Mazzaroth, 133
Sokhit in pyramid times, 329
Solstices, 55, 57
determination of, 62 et seq.
by Chinese, 63
relation to inundation, 234
summer, festival of, 198
temples oriented to, 78
and vague year cycle, 252
Sothis, Greek form of Sirius, q.v.
Sowing, season of, 233
Sphinx, object of, 82
Spica, associated with Mut temple, 320
observed at Thebes, 318
temples to, 313
in Greece, 419, 424
St. Peter's, Rome, 96, 102
Stars, apparent paths of, 41
how used to tell time at night, 343
non-rising at Thebes, 44
non-setting at Thebes, 44
northern, antiquity of worship of, 341
risings of, achronic, 121
cosmical, 121, 160
heliacal of Sirius, 121, 200, 209, 210, 249, 250, 254, 262
rising with sun, 60
risings at sunset, 148
settings, achronic, 121
heliacal, 121
table of, 314
southern, used in upper Egypt, 343
southern, worship of, as opposed to northern, 325
table of, 314
Storms, god of, 7
Stonehenge, 89, 90
Strassmeyer, 3, 407
Suhag, Nile gauge at, 235
Sun, course of, mythology of, 279
the midnight, 65
temples to, at solstices, 78
yearly path of, 53
Sun-gods, names for, 7, 373
Sunlight, god of, 33, 36
Sunrise, herald of, first star used, 277
in Greece, 416
Sunset, explanation of red colour of, 32
represented by Nephthys, 31
Sut. See Set
Sutech. See Set
god of Canaanites, 361
temple at Memphis, 361
Syria, invaders from, found 25th dynasty, 340
T
Tables of dates of foundations, 352
of stars, 20th dynasty, 408, 410
Taharqa, 187, 340
Tammuz, associated with Asari, 372
son of Ía, 372
son of Mul-lil, 372
Tammuz-Nergal, sun-god, 372, 374
son of Ía, 372
Mul-lil, 372
Tanis, decree of, 270
temple of, 82, 281, 329
Taurus, constellation of, 143, 378
in pyramid times, 329
Taurt, goddess, 28, 146, 302
mistress of darkness, 344
represented by hippopotamus, 146
symbol of, 216, 290
symbolised star γ Draconis, 290
Tebha, 145
Tefnut, 31, 36
Tel Hakoab, mounds at, 86
Tell el-Amarna, Spica temple, 313
temples at, 322, 419
Temples in Lower Egypt, as opposed to those in Upper Egypt, 341
series of, in Southern Egypt, 311
diversity of, due to different races, 315
Tetramenes, 272
Teχi, 223, 275
Thebes, amplitudes at, 47, 171
astronomical thought at, 324
two schools of, 325
city of Dragon in Greece, 422
first appearance of in Egyptian history, 331, 338
history of cults at, 320
month table at, 143
Nile flood, 240
rising of land about, 240
statues of Sechet, 290
temples at, amplitudes of, 156, 168, 309
of Amen Rā, 99
modern, 186
M, 213
solstitial, 78
Thigh, āk of, 176
(Mesχet), 179, 216
constellation, 137, 143, 302
in pyramid times, 360
of Set, 146, 147
represents Great Bear, 146
This, antiquity of, 327
Thistleton-Dyer, on Myrrh from Pun-t, 348
Thoth = Asti, 176
1st of, dates of, 268
festival of, 198
lunus, 29, 393
month of, sign of, 269
relation to Teχi, 275
sign of, in Ramessids' time, 269
Thothmes I., 188
Thothmes III., date of, 261
and the Theban priests, 321
Ptah temple, 354
Karnak, embellishments at, 112
restoration of temple of Amen-Rā, 108
temples at Medînet-Habû, 221
Thoueris. See Taurt
Tiāmat and Marduk, myth of, 378, 398
Tigris, god sacred to, 229
inundation, time of, 85, 230, 367
Tmu. See Atmu
Tomes on red hippopotamus, 362
Totemism, 215
Triads, 222
Tuamāutef, 147
Tum. See Atmu
Twilight, representation of, Isis, 29
representation of, Nephthys, 31
Typhon. See Set
Tyre, temple of, 161
U
Unger, date of Mena, 22
Ur of the Chaldees, 379
Ursæ Majoris α, temples to, 309, 341, 354, 360
Usertsen I., 179, 221, 215
obelisk at Annu, 214, 338
Ushas, 7
Utchats, 280
V
Varuna, 7
Vedas, 4, 5, 6
Virchow, on race distinctions, 386
Virey, Dêr el-Bahari discoveries, 319
on cult of Aten, 321
Vitruvius, on temple orientation, 58
Vyse, Col. Howard, 12
W
Wady Halfa to Aswân, rate of Nile flood, 240
Capt. Lyons' work at, 358
Wady Hammamāt, 208
Wakefield, measurements at Karnak, 117
Worship of N. star, imported into Egypt, 370
Y
Year, anomalistic, 53
calendar, 246
definition of, 247
fixed, 251
length of, 251
length of, 244, 247
true, 250
fixed and vague, time of coincidence, 267
variation between, 252
great, Annus Magnus, 257
measure of length of, first, 110
new, indications, 247
sidereal, 53
Sirian, length of, 253
tropical, 53
vague, 251
beginnings of, 110
and solstice, cycle, 252
in time of Ramessids, 263
Young, Thomas, Rosetta stone, 11
Z
Zend-Avesta, 6
Ziggurats, erection of, 367
Zodiac, the signs of, 137
Zodiacs, of Denderah, 135, 146
discovery of, 18
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