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Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840], at DarkSideOfTheNet.com

IV. HOW A MONTH.

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To represent a month they delineate a PALM BRANCH, or, the MOON INVERTED.

p. 11

[paragraph continues] A palm branch for the reason before mentioned respecting the palm tree; and the moon inverted, because they say, that, in its increase, when it has come to fifteen degrees, 1 it appears in figure with its horns erect; and in its decrease, after having completed the number of thirty days, 2 it sets with its horns inverted.

Footnotes

10:1

I. II. A month.

III. The twelve months, divided into three seasons:

Season of Vegetation.

Thoth.

Paophi.

Hathor.

Choiak.

Season of Harvest.

Toby.

Mechir.

Phamenoth.

Pharmuthi.

Season of Inundation.

Pachon.

Paoni.

Epiphi.

Mesori.

 

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