inverted
positions, with the cross-sign=ur, a group which might well have been
employed as a rebus expressing the sound ur-ak-ka, a combination which I
shall discuss further on.

The identity of Horus as a form of Polaris is hinted at in the following
inscription in the temple at Denderah (pl. V, 10) which Brugsch
translates: "Ra Horchuti (=hur-chuti) the shining Horus, the ray of light
in the night" ... (_op. cit._ I, p. 16). The "god" is figured in mummy
form, holding the sceptre tam (_cf._ mat=justice, truth) and the sign ankh
(life), with the head of a hawk=bak or hru (_cf._ ur=four, and head=tep or
tepet, also name for "chief"), the head conveying idea of four-fold
chieftainship, surmounted by the horns=ap and circle or disk=ra.

[Illustration.]

Figure 65.

An extremely suggestive astronomical picture (pl. V, 13) contains the
combination of Horus, the An, in the form of the human-headed hawk, with a
serpent Na, the boat (uaa, am or makhen) and the circle enclosing a single
star, duat (_cf._ ua=one). The complete group thus conveys a wealth of
hidden meaning which is perfectly intelligible when interpreted as
pole-star symbolism.

The reader is now invited to take a preliminary look at the columns of
signs included in figs. 66, 67, 68, some of which will be recognized as
primitive pole-star symbols already discussed, and which will respectively
be found to contain homonyms of ua=One and uahi=permanent; ak and
kabal=centre, ka=double, an=he who turns and ankh=life, etc. Special
attention is also drawn to the modes of expressing the syllable am by the
homonyms boy or child, boat and tree (fig. 63, 20-22).

Different combinations of identical phonetic elements are found in the
following groups which prove to be but different ingenious figures
expressing the same sounds, with more or less the same meanings: pl. V,
15, represents the boat, whose phonetic values are given above, with a
flower=ankh, the homonym of life, containing the names an and na, from
which the uraeus=ara, is rising. Later on the deeper symbolism of this and
fig. 12, pl. V, will be further discussed. In the latter, instead of the
flower the boat contains the ara and a boy=ah or aah, whose name is the
homonym for great, mighty, powerful, etc. Assuming that the boat expressed
its particular name uaa=ua=one, we thus have a rendering of the
appellation so constantly given to Amen-Ra in