forth, that the syllables and rebus-figures employed are
found indissolubly linked to pole-star and sacred symbolism. Referring a
demonstration of these conclusions to the end of the present
investigation, I shall next discuss the forms which the cult of the
dualities of nature seemingly assumed in ancient Egypt.

As an introduction I present in fig. 70, the copy of the upper portion of
a funeral stela preserved at Bulak and published by Perrot and Chipiez
(AEgypten, Leipzig, 1884). It exhibits the head or face of Hathor
surmounting the tet column and supporting, in turn, the image of a small
house or temple, at each side of which is a peculiar projection recalling
the circinate line issuing from the red crown of lower Egypt (see fig. 70,
9, 10). In another Hathor stela, figured in the same work (pp. 510 and
780), the same characteristic circinate projections recur. The image of
the house, always represented with a single doorway, is obviously a rebus
of the name Hathor, explained by Egyptologists as Het-heru, literally "the
house of Horus." "Athor or Hathor of Thebes, identified with Nut, the sky
... was the female power of nature and is often represented under the form
of a cow, ... as a woman with a cow's head, with horns and the disk, or
wearing a head-dress in the shape of a vulture and above it the disk and
horns." In the familiar representation of the mask of Hathor on columns,
the association with the cow is conveyed by large cow's ears=setem,
projecting at each side of the face=hra.

A feature generally present in the miniature doorway of the house, is a
single erect head of a uraeus, bearing the disk or circle on its head and
usually exhibiting a distinctly cross-shaped mark on its neck. The latter
peculiarity is clearly shown in fig. 70, 1, which exhibits moreover a
seated divinity at each side of the doorway, each bearing the throne or
seat (auset) on its head, and the ankh sign on its knee. Close examination
reveals that one of these deities is Ausar=Osiris, whose name is generally
written by means of the throne=auset, and the eye=ari, with or without the
determinative for god, _i. e._, the seated figure (fig. 70, 1 _a_ and 1
_b_). Opposite to Osiris is Auset=Isis, whose name is usually written as
in fig. 70, 1 _c_, where the auset, the egg=se, and the seated image of a
goddess bearing a bowl=neb, on her head, may be distinguished.

[Illustration.]