This appears to explain clearly why the bull was
chosen as the image or rebus of Polaris and Ursa Major, which appear to
have been regarded as a single combination of stars. The fact that in the
hymns Amen-Ra is addressed as "the bull," constitutes a convincing
corroboration of the identification of the "hidden god" with Polaris. A
line of connection seems, moreover, to exist between the Egyptian kabal
sami=the middle of heaven, the image of a bull in the centre of the
zodiacs, and the bull of Assyria, under which image Baal was worshipped.

Hieratic signs, expressing the word for middle and double appear to have
been: the mummy which, although named sah or tut, also signified
khat=corpse (2) and conveyed an allusion to mit=death, the homonym of
met=north.

A certain form of fish expressed the syllable kha (3). A cone-shaped
object named khaker appears to have served as a rebus for the middle and
double as well as night=ker and time=rek (4). In pl. VII, 12, the khaker
figures behind the seated image of a deity with the head of a ram=ser or
sar, holding the ankh in his hand, the whole forming a rebus for Ansar,
and containing much meaning besides.

Kha-ut (fig. 67, 5) is the name for the sacrificial offering laid on the
utu=altar, which is shaped like the tau and symbolizes the above and below
by its perpendicular and horizontal lines. In the centre of this is the
bread=ta (the homonym of ta=earth, _cf._ neb-at=fire), which is remarkable
on account of its division into four parts analogous to that of nut=city,
a feature which justifies the inference that the word for cake=sen-nu made
with honey=bat or net, is intended to be expressed here. A jar stands at
each side of the cake, which is placed on edge so as to exhibit the sacred
design upon it. It is significant that, if the jars contained wine=arp,
milk=art, the name of the liquid constituted an anagram of ra, if
perfume=anta was present, this furnished the syllables an and ta=earth. It
is, of course, impossible to surmise how far such resemblances of sounds
influenced the choice of sacred offerings.

[Illustration.]

Figure 67.

The kha (fig. 67, 6)=crown is particularly interesting as Amen-Ra is
addressed as "crowned form," the lord of the ureret crown, ... beautiful
of tiara, exalted of the white crown ... on whose brow the double crown of
Upper and Lower Egypt is established. It appears, therefore,