Read Ebook: The dawn of astronomy A study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians by Lockyer Norman Sir
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View to the South-West from the Sacred Lake of Amen-R? 103
Ruins of Door at Entrance of the Sanctuary 104
The Obelisks near the Oldest Part of the Temple of Amen-R? 105
Inner Court and Sanctuary at Edf? 106
Plan of the Temple of Amen-R? 118
Model Illustrating the Precession of the Equinoxes 125
Star-map Representing the Precessional Movement of the Celestial Pole from the Year 4000 B.C. to the year 2000 A.D. 127
Northern Half of the So-called Square Zodiac of Denderah 136
Sirius and Orion 139
Astronomical Drawing's from Bib?n el-Mul?k 140
Ruins of the Ramesseum, where the Month-Tables were found 142
The God of Darkness--Set 144
Various Forms of Anubis 145
Forms of Typhon 146
Mestha. H?pi, Tuam?utef, Qebhsennuf 147
Set-Horus 149
Illustration from a Theban Tomb 151
Horus and Crocodiles 152
Horus and Crocodiles, Ptah and Crocodiles 153
Ground Plan of Edf? 157
Ground Plan of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah; Plan of the Temple of Seti at Abydos 158
Plan of Temples at Med?net-Hab? 164
The Bent Axis of the Temple of Luxor 165
The Laying of the Foundation Stone Ceremonial 174
Plan of Denderah 192
Ruins of the Mamisi or Temple of Isis at Denderah 195
Ceremonial Procession in an Egyptian Temple 199
Orientation of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah 202
Capital, with Masks of Hathor with Cow's Ears 216
The Cow of Isis 217
Hathor as a Cow 218
Hathor, "The Cow of the Western Hills" 219
The Annual Rise and Fall of the Nile 228
H?pi, the God of the Nile 229
Different Forms of Thoth 232
Scale of the Nilometer at R?da 235
The Island of R?da 236
Conditions of the Heliacal Rising of Sirius from 4000 B.C. to 600 A.D. 255
The Distribution of the 1st of Thoth among the Egyptian Months in the 1460-year Sothic Cycle 258
Julian Dates of the 1st of Thoth from 23 A.D. and 240 A.D. 267
The Month-Table at the Ramesseum 276
Black Granite Statue of Sekhet from the Temple of Mut at Thebes 288
The Goddess Taurt; the Goddess Serk-t or Selk-t 289
Nit ; Bast 290
Anuqa; Sati 291
Isis Nursing Horus 292
Isis, Osiris and Horus 297
A "Change of Cult" at Luxor 298
Curves showing the Declinations of Some of the Stars used by the Egyptian Astronomers at Different Epochs 307
The Temples at Tell el-Amarna 322
Apis 330
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