ting king-high-priest always personified
Ra-Osiris or the Sun and the queen Isis-Sothis-Hathor and the Moon
or Sirius. The female child to whom the queen gives birth was
destined to be her successor and another personification of Isis,
therefore she could be said to have given birth to her own mother,
since, like the latter, the child would be an Isis. In the same way
the queen could be said to marry her father and brother, as, like
herself, the king was the offspring of a divine union and bore his
father's title. In connection with the custom of the male Horus
naming the "young sun" and the female Horus the young star or moon,
it is noteworthy that the son and daughter of Anthony and Cleopatra,
who used to assume the insignia of Isis on state occasions, were
given the Greek surnames of Helios and Selene.

118 It is extremely curious and interesting that the Incas, the
civilizers of Peru, also set up a disk of gold as the image of the
Creator and placed it between images of the sun and moon. We also
find the Inca Ccapac Yupanqui, like Amenhotep, deploring the spread
of idolatry and image-worship as a misfortune to his vassals and a
sorrow to himself. It is recorded of another Inca that, as a wise
measure he destroyed all writing, presumably picture and rebus
writing, as calculated to mislead his people by a multiplication of
symbols. It is an interesting reflection which our increased
knowledge of the primitive civilization of Egypt enables us to make,
that the organization of Peru, under Inca rule, must have closely
resembled that of Egypt in remotest antiquity, at its primitive
stage of development, when simplicity, harmony and equilibrium
existed throughout the "celestial kingdom."

119 The following detached extracts, partly from Mr. Richard Hinckley
Allen's valuable work, should be carefully studied in connection
with the above text, as they throw further light upon the ideas
associated with the sacred centres of heaven and earth by nations
with whom the Greeks were in touch.

"To the whole Arabian nation, heathen or Mahommedan, Polaris was
Alfass, the hole in which the earth's axle found its bearing" (p.
451).

The following important material pertains to the chapter on India,
of whose insufficiency I am pa