. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . ange that this glyph of water is almost identical withthe ancient Chinese character shui, water, ^ or -^ as given byProf Gustav SchlegeP and it also resembles the astrological signfor Aquarius, who must have had his origin in the god of theheavens-river or ocean. The present Chinese character for astream is ]\\ for {;;, which is simply the three ripples in anotherdirection. The puzzling Egyptian river Ptar, referred to by Chabas{Melanges Asiatiqiies, iii, 2, 80; Voyage, 78) as a lake or water-course on whi
. The night of the gods; an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology and symbolism . ange that this glyph of water is almost identical withthe ancient Chinese character shui, water, ^ or -^ as given byProf Gustav SchlegeP and it also resembles the astrological signfor Aquarius, who must have had his origin in the god of theheavens-river or ocean. The present Chinese character for astream is ]\\ for {;;, which is simply the three ripples in anotherdirection. The puzzling Egyptian river Ptar, referred to by Chabas{Melanges Asiatiqiies, iii, 2, 80; Voyage, 78) as a lake or water-course on which Paramses Meiamun sailed, must perhaps beinterpreted (not to be the Phrat or Euphrates) but the heavens-river. The junction of the (heavens?) eye with the water-sign induces me to give the hieroglyphics of Ptar here. .^^^ ^-^-^^^ i^scD ^ n r ^^ ;zc^ and U i V t|i ^w^-A^ . 1 I ^ 7=1 - i/raiio^-. Chi., 1S75, l-. 667. 864 The Night of the Gods. \_The Heavens- Osburn in his Ancient Egypf gave this diagram of theThree Niles —the heavens-river nu above, the geographical Nile. (Hapi-quaere for fi t^^x in the middle, and the infernal flood or inundation Meh, below. Remember, the inundationcomes from the south. He does not say where he got the diagramfrom, but he quotes from the first hour of the PereniJirii,immediately thereupon. De Rouge mentionecP a figure of the god Nile, crowned with the lotus and holding a libation-vase. Itis, he said, the celestial Nile that reigned in the regions cultivatedby the Manes. Cocytus (Kw/coTo?) used to be represented as an Old God withan urn, the floods from which first formed a perfect circle, and thenran ofl and united with kr^epwv. Vs\ ^f^^j^ -r=r means germ as well as water, perhaps preserving to us a record of the water-origin cosmogony of ^ means that which is, being, and with the waterdeterminant T^\ ^^^^^ t=t it means water and liquid. Uau 5 f] (which is very like the French eau and its equivalents) is running water. A funereal
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