The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer.

Norman Lockyer

Date:: 1894

Credit: The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$Ecliptic, (il)li([uity uf, 53 pole of, Babylonian obser- vations, 363 plane of, 52 Edfii, early temple at, 311, 360 festival calendar at, 282 Hawk-god of, 349 inscrijjtions 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, iSiui-temple at Pekin, 88 El-Mamun, 12 Entenna, 369 Epacts (or Epagomena), 247 Epping, o, 407 Equator, pole of, Babylonian name for, 365 Equinoxes, 54, 57, 62 established in p\Tamid times, 329 Eridu, 371 colonisation of. 374, 385 god of, 372, 377 Esne, feast calendars of, 282 inscription at. 284 Ethiopia, e;irly history of, 345 exile of Theban priests to, 340 I'eturn of Thelian priests from, 340 Eudoxus, sphere of, 139 Euphrates, god sacred to, 229 rise of, 85, 230, 267 Fayyflm, pyramids, 339 Fire, gt)d of, 7 Fitz-Gerald, agriculture in Africa, 273 Flandin, 2)lans of Khnr.sabad, .S7 Foundation-stone, laving of, I7;!, 175 Foundations of temides, table of dates of, 352 oldest in Egypt, 354 G Garstin, Nile rising, average rate of, 240 Gauges, Nile, distances from Aswan. 235 hciii'lits above sea-level 236 GebelBarkal, 221, 347 pyramids at, 356 temples at, 356 Gizeh, cult at, equinoctial, 85, 359 pyramids of, 12, 82, 336, 363 temples at, 82, 287 Globe, to rectify the, 44,130 processional, 170 Gnomon, 63 Goat-fish in Babylonia, 377 Gondokoro, 238 Grebaut, discoveries at Der el-Bahari, 319 Greece, orientation of tenrples iu. five Chap, xxxviii. pdssuii Green Water, Nile, why it hrralds thr rise, 238 Green and Red Nile, differ- ence of time between, 240 H Habenben. See .Sanctuary. Hak, of Pun-t, name for Amen-Ra, 347 Hapi, god of Nile, 147, 229 Harhouditi, 349 Harpocrates (or Hor or Horus), 24, 26 Harsiisit. 349 Harvest festivals, 233, 319 Hathor = Isis, 210 ^ 1 sis =r Mut = ]Methuer, 212 change of representation, 301 connection with hippo- potamus, 216 form of, ordinaiy, 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 7 Diaconis, 205, 214 Hathor, rising of, reference to, 194 southern worship, 349 symbol of, 216, 290, 293 temples of 160, 202, 210 amplitude of, 176, 193, 210 atAbuSimbel 306 at Denderah, 293 at Der el-Ba- hari, 193, 293 various names for, 211 worshipped in pyramid times, 329 Hat-shepset, queen, 106, 212 ex]i)edition to Pun-t, 349 Heliopolis. See Annu Herodotus, on temple of Tyre, 161 Hieroglyphics, decipher- ment of, 11 Hind, star-places, 170 Hippopotamus, connected with Hathor, 178, 216 constellation Draco, 137 143, 146, 218 in pyramid timts, 360 form of Taurt, 146 female, 216 hieroglyph for, 362 represents Mut at Thebes, 216 red, 362 variant of crocodile, 146 wife of !Set, 146 History of Egypt, first blank in, 3-ii, 337 second blank in, 339 north, first civilisation, 330 Holy of Holies. See Sanc- tuary 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 hj'mn to, 26 laughing, 149 meaning of, 148, 149 Northern, 349$