. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . vered by Lepsius(Einleitung zur Chronologie der JEgypter, p. 184) and confirmed by Biot (Sur les restes de lancienneUranographie égyptienne que lon pourrait retrouver aujourdhui chez les Arabes qui habitent lintérieurde lÉgypte, p. 51, et seq., in the Journal des Savants, 1854). Mariette pointed out that thePyramid Arabs applied the name of the Haunch (er-Rigl) to the same group of stars as that thusdesignated by the ancient Egyptians (cf. Brugsch, Die JEgyptologie, p. 343). Champollion had notedthe position of the Haunch in the northern sky (Di
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . vered by Lepsius(Einleitung zur Chronologie der JEgypter, p. 184) and confirmed by Biot (Sur les restes de lancienneUranographie égyptienne que lon pourrait retrouver aujourdhui chez les Arabes qui habitent lintérieurde lÉgypte, p. 51, et seq., in the Journal des Savants, 1854). Mariette pointed out that thePyramid Arabs applied the name of the Haunch (er-Rigl) to the same group of stars as that thusdesignated by the ancient Egyptians (cf. Brugsch, Die JEgyptologie, p. 343). Champollion had notedthe position of the Haunch in the northern sky (Dictionnaire hiéroglyphique, p. 355), but had notsuggested any identification. The Haunch appertained to Sît-Typhon (De Iside et Osiride), § 21,Partheys edition, p. 36). 4 The connection of Ririt, the female hippopotamus, with the Haunch is made quite clearin scenes from Phil® and Edfû (Brugsch, Thesaurus, pp. 126, 127), representing Isis holdingback Typhon by a chain, that he might do no hurt to Sâhû-Osiris (ibid., p. 122). Jollois and. TEE EORUS PLANETS. 95 jauntily carrying upon her shoulders a monstrous crocodile whose jaws openedthreateningly above her head. Eighteen luminaries of varying size andsplendour, forming a group hard by the hippopotamus, indicated the outlineof a gigantic lion couchant, with stiffened tail, its head turned to the right,and facing the Most of the constellations never left the sky :
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