may well have been associated with the "primitive sun"=Polaris,
before supreme sovereignty was transferred to Phoebus, the diurnal
sun, by the votaries of the cult of Light.

106 I am pleased to be able, at the last moment, to insert the following
interesting points personally communicated to me by Dr. Wallis
Budge: In remotest antiquity two mythical mountains marked the two
divisions of the land: Bakhan, situated to the southeast, and Manu,
situated to the northwest. The latter, like the mountain Meru of
India, was the abode of the blessed, towards which the souls of the
dead set out from Abydos and where eternal rest was to be found. The
curious connection between the north=mehta and the west=amenta,
which I have shown to have prevailed in ancient Mexico where the
north is named Mictlan and in Yucatan where Aman signifies north, is
particularly interesting in connection with the exclamation or
exhortation to the soul, constantly met with in the Egyptian Book of
the Dead: Er-amentet=to the hidden land! _i. e._, the northwest.

107 Thesaurus Inscriptionem AEgyptiacarum II, p. 212.

108 First Steps in Egyptian, London, 1898. I am mainly indebted to this
useful book and other publications by the same author for the
Egyptian words cited in the following pages. An interesting point,
personally communicated to me by Dr. Wallis Budge, is that the
cardinal points in Egypt were located diagonally, a method which is
shown to have also existed in Central America by the diagonal
orientation of numberless pyramids and buildings.

109 A History of Egypt, Vol. II. London, 1896.

110 Reference is made to another translation of the hymn in the "Records
of the Past," Vol. II, pp. 127-136, and to Grebaut, Hymne a Ammon
Ra.

111 First steps in Egyptian, Mr. Wallis Budge, p. 235.

112 An extremely interesting instance of the hand being actually figured
between the sun and the moon, _i. e._ as the symbol of the Middle,
is to be seen on the Phoenician tablet to Baal Hamman and Tanitla,
from Carthage, preserved at the British Museum and figured by Mr.
Goodyear, fig. 64, 1. Above the hand is a group of symbols
consisting of two S-shaped signs, resembling the Mexican picture of
Ursa Major. Between these is a pyramid and above this a
seven-petalled