10. _Idem_, resting in the centre of the summit of a twin mountain.

11. _Idem_, resting in the centre of a boat.

12. _Idem_, with a central star instead of a dot constituting the word
duat="lower hemisphere" (Brugsch).

13. The variant of this, cited by Brugsch.

14. The disk containing a single eye.

My prolonged study of the ancient Mexican picture-writings having given me
the habit of regarding each primitive symbol as a possible rebus led me to
look up the phonetic values of the symbols combined with the Ra sign and
to note that some of them were actually mentioned in connection with
Amen-Ra in the texts cited above, namely: the face, the eye, the egg, the
uraeus, the disk, the "serpent Mehen." It was a surprise to find, on simply
referring to the glossaries, that the name for uraeus=ara and that eye=ari;
an egg=ar (also sa, se, and suht); face=hra; each word thus containing the
name Ra=god, in simple or inverted form (see fig. 63, 1-4). The natural
inference was that I had obtained an insight into the method devised by
the ingenious Egyptian priesthood, to express, in cryptic form, the name
of the "hidden god."

[Illustration.]

Figure 63.

Further glimpses of light seemed obtained when I found that, as written by
German Egyptologists, the determinative for divinity, the banner=nutar,
notar, netar, or neter, not only expressed the same sound as the word nut,
but also contained the letters "r" and "a" (5). The disk=atun, aton or
aten might also be regarded as an anagram, being the inverted form of
nutar, minus the last letter (6). The names for wing (7) being tun, ton or
ten, the wing attached to the disk constituted a complementary sign,
duplicating the final syllable. At the same time, as a second name for
wing was meh, or mah (_cf._ mat and its synonym su=feather), there seemed
to be an explanation of the "serpent mehen" applied to Amen-Ra and the
possibility that it signified the "winged serpent," such as is frequently
depicted in texts published by Brugsch (8). It was obvious that the
uraeus=ara and the wing meh, would form an ingenious anagram expressing, by
means of the signs, a-meh-ra, the name Amen-Ra.

The constantly recurring form of the Ra sign, in which the serpent is
represented as gliding around the circle, enclosing the central point of
fixity, naturally suggests the inference that this variant must have been
adopted at a tim