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

  • Norman Lockyer
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1894
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    Nilometer at Aswan, 234 NimrCld, mounds at, 86 modern C'alah, 86 Ninib, sun-god, 375 Ni^sen on temple building, 173, 17o Nubia, mode of telling time at night, 342 Nuri, buildings at,- 347, 356 Nu-t or Nu, 32, 33 double repi-esentation of 34 relation to iSeb, 35 Cannes. See la Obelisk, at Annu, orienta- tion of, 214, 326 Obliquity of ecliptic, values of, 113 Observations of stars daily as ojijDOsed to yearly, 341 On. See Annu Oppolzer, risings, heliacal of Sirius, 200, 249, 253, 268 Orion, constellation of, 137, 143 Ormuzd or Ahura-ilazda, 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 =wanino- moon, 297 Padoramen priest, titles of, 340 Palmyra, temples at, equi- noctial, 92, 94, 367 Parthenon at Athens, 164, 415, 416 Parthey, :*16 1 Patah. See Ptah i Pekin, sun temple at, 88, 89 Penrose on Greek temples, 98, and chap, xxxyiii. passim Pepi, Kiny-, date of, 207, 262, 337 restoration of Denderah, 204 temple foundations, 354 Period, Sothic, 256 Petrie, Flinders, on Stone- henge, 90 ]Mediim pjTamid, 335,337 Tell-el-Amarna 323 Phact (a Columbte), 82, 354, 360. 381 Philae, Chnemu at, 384 inscription at, 261 Jsis-Sati at, 218 temples at, 73 early to Cano- pus, 311,360 Pierret, hieroglyph of h%)po- potamus, 362 Pile dwellings in Pim-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 Prithivi, earth go<l, 7 Ptah, connection with Cajj- ella, 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 -1 lui Iding in 12th dynasty, 338 Isis temples at, 329 of Dashur, 336 Gizeh, 82 Medum, 335, 337 Sakkarah, 333 oldest, 369 orientation of, 333 Step, age of, 369 Qebhsennuf, 147 B Ra, eyes of, 280 hymn to, 27 manifestation of. 111 meaning of, 194 sun-gofi, 25, 26, 35, 227 Ra—Tmu—Horus, h^Tnn to, 26 Ra-t, symbol of, 290 Rameses III., date of, 135, 184, 221 building of temple T, Karnak, 186 tcmi.lo :\1, 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, differ- ence of time between, 210 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 R6da, nilometer at, 234 rise of Nile at, 237 Rome, St. Peter's, 96, 102 Rosetta Stone, 11 Ross, Col., R.E , 237, 241 Rouge, De, on Hor-Shesu, 150 Silsilis inscriptions, 263 Mediim pyramid, 336 manifestation of Ra, 111 Sais, S2, 329 Sakkarah, step-pyramid of, 3 O '->, 3b/ Samas, 377 Sanctuary, 102, 340 illumination of, 106 darkness of, object of, 109 Sargon I., King, date of, M(i(), 369, 403 Sarzec, ~Sl. de, discoyeries at TeMoh, 369