master, my god, my sun, seven
times, and seven times more, I fall down.(109)"...

While the above data suffice to establish that more than a thousand years
before Greek rule was established in Egypt its inhabitants were familiar
with the seven-fold scheme of organization, the following extremely
interesting portion of Brugsch's monumental work, already cited,
indirectly teaches much concerning the divisions of the land of Egypt. The
ancient Egyptian astronomers regarded the nocturnal heaven as the exact
counterpart of the land of Egypt (I, p. 176). In the inscriptions, the
firmament is frequently considered geographically, as a region comprising
countries surrounded by seas and traversed by rivers and canals, and
covered with cities and houses and divided into nomes which corresponded
to those of Egypt, excepting in point of number, there being thirty-six
celestial nomes. According to the inscriptions and pictures in the royal
tombs at Thebes, there was a celestial eastern sea (uat-ura abti), a
western sea (uat-ura amentti) and a northern sea (uat-ura mahtet or
mehtat). Special mention is made of "the waters" and land of the "northern
place of light above the constellation of the Great Bear."

The lands of Punet (Punt?), Uthenet, Kenemti and Sa-nutart-mahti, "the
northern land of God" are designated, beside other names which correspond
to the terrestrial geographical situation of outlying foreign countries
known to the Egyptians. There was a celestial city, "Anu or On," whose
eastern and western sides or places of light are frequently mentioned. The
mention of a single Anu or On, names which are found applied to the most
ancient capitals of the land of Egypt, is particularly noteworthy. It will
be shown further on, upon Sir Norman Lockyer's authority, that, in the
exact centre of the circular zodiac at Denderah, the jackal, expressing
the name Anubis, "is located at the pole of the equator and obviously
represents the present Little Bear." This and other data establish beyond
a doubt that the celestial Anu, On or No, was supposed to be situated in
Polaris and that the terrestrial capital was intended to be the
counterpart of the apparent seat of central rule and government according
to fixed laws and order of rotation. The idea that, after death, the human
soul lived again in the celestial sphere is shown in the following address
to a departed spirit contained in the Bulak papyrus cited by Brugsch: "The
images of the go