XV. How They Denote the Renovation of the Moon

Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at sacred-texts.com

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XV. HOW THEY DENOTE THE RENOVATION OF THE MOON.

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When they would denote the renovation of the moon, they again pourtray a CYNOCEPHALUS in this posture, standing upright, and raising its hands to heaven, with a diadem upon its head; and for the renovation they depict this posture, into which the cynocephalus throws itself, as congratulating the goddess, if we may so express it, in that they have both recovered light.

Footnotes

35:1 From the temple of Edfou.—Sh. E. I. 46. 6. Vocab. 959.