said to shoot arrows in all directions, _i. e._ to
turn around, and the Akkadian title for Ursa Major, Akanna=the Lord of
Heaven. The second name for mummy, given in Mr. Wallis Budge's Nile, is
tut, the exact word which signifies "to engender," which explains why
images of the creator should have been made in mummy form. The word tut
directs attention to the name of the god Tehuti=Thoth, "the Measurer," a
name to be weighed in connection with the fact that time was measured by
the circumpolar constellations. It does not appear impossible that the
word khat=corpse may also have been brought into use in the rebus and
furnished an anagram or allusion to the ak or centre.

The other well-known symbol for eternity, _i. e._ stability, is the column
tet, representing a pillar usually consisting of four or five parts (fig.
63, 11). It appears hitherto to have escaped attention that the Egyptian
for hand being tet, the hand, employed as a rebus, would actually express
the name for eternity and may well have been employed as a secret sign for
the divine centre, eternal stability and the sacred number five,
consisting of the Middle and the Four Quarters, symbolized by the fingers
and thumb (fig. 63, 12). To this must be added the interesting fact that,
in hieratic script, the hand expressed the sound "a" which means "power"
while aa=great, aat=great and mighty, aa=mighty one. To those initiated in
the mysteries of hieroglyphic writing the hand thus clearly constituted a
rebus, expressing the eternal, permanent, stable, great, mighty power, one
yet double and fourfold, the sacred five in one, the Middle and Four
Quarters.(112)

The following is a group of animal and other figures, which are repeated,
with variations of form, combination and position, in the different
zodiacs.

[Illustration.]

Figure 64.

The principal and the phonetic values of their names are figured as
follows: the thigh=uart, khepes or maskhet; the bull, ox or cow=ka, ah,
aua; the hawk=bak, designated as an, kher or heu=Horus; the cynocephalus
ape and phallus=aaani and ka; the lion=mahes; the jackal (anubis) uher or
sabi; the scorpion=tart or serkhet; the crocodile=sebek, also amsuk or
emsuh, and seta; the vase or jar=nu (_cf._ nut); the female
hippopotamus=tebt, shown by Dr. Gensler to have been associated with the
name menat=nurse, she who nurses (see Brugsch I, p. 130).