eternity. The bird of
prey=seta on the bull's back (makha) evidently signified the hidden=seta,
centre, m-akh-a, further significance being lent to the syllable akh by
the fact that it also means "to support," and that "the support of heaven"
was a divine title contained in the hieratic texts. The double hair=anem,
ka, appears as another mode of expressing the "hidden" ka=double or
ak=centre. The word for tongue (nes) being the reversal of sen=two, the
kheper=life, on the tongue, appears as an allusion to dual principles or
powers of nature. The giving forth and drawing in of breath by the living
Apis bull must doubtlessly have seemed, to the Egyptian priesthood,
emblematical of the giving and taking away of breath of life, by the
creator, Khepera, over whose emblem, on the tongue of the animal, each
breath necessarily passed.

An insight may thus be gained of the method by means of which primitive,
naive picture-writing could have become more ingenious and intricate
until, as actually stated in the hymns, the name of the supreme divinity
became "hidden from his children in the name Amen" [literally=hidden], and
a "myriad of names, how many are they is not known" had been invented by
the scribes, to designate the King (Hak), "one among gods, in form one,
the lord of eternity, stability and law."

Before making a cursory examination of the following lists of homonyms of
the names for bull=ah, uau and ka, I must revert to astronomical pictures
and signs and make some statements concerning the hawk-headed human form
found represented in the zodiacs in close association with the image of
Ursa Major, the bull; (see pl. V, 1, from Denderah). The presence of the
hawk=bak in the centre of the polar region, with the bull ka, assumes
significance in connection with the word ak=middle and the name for "the
middle of the heavens," cited by Sir Norman Lockyer; _i. e._, kabal sami,
and all of these words are particularly interesting when it is remembered
that the Babylonian name for north was akkad, the Akkadian title for Ursa
Major was Akanna, while Ursa Minor was named Kakkabu in Babylonia and
Assyria. The Arabian kaaba is recalled here.

The inscriptions accompanying the zodiacs published by Brugsch (_op. cit._
I, p. 127) designate this hawk-headed personage, who, in each case, holds
either a spear or a plain staff, by the following names, of which I give
Brugsch's translation, followed by my own commentary. An=he who turns or
w