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186 HIEROGLYPHS.
of Egypt and scheme of the Nile, an account of the supplies
of the temples and the lands apportioned to them, touching
on measures and the requisites of sacred things. Another of
the works referred to the sealing of victims and the instruction
of youth; ten others to the honours to be rendered to the
gods, and other actions of Egyptian piety, as sacrifices, first-
fruits, vows, ceremonies, feasts, and similar things. Ten more
books embraced the laws of the country and of the gods, and
the instruction of the priests. Altogether, there were
forty-two of these works—thirty-six embracing the philo-
sophical notions of the Egyptians, and the other six
medicine.
The titles of some of the Hermetic books were : " Physics,
Origin, the Key, the Bowl;" "The Hidden Word;" "Con-
cerning Universal Nature ; " " To His own Mind ; " " Address
to the Tat, to Ammon, to Asclepios, the Asclepios ; " ] " The
Damsel of the World," or " The Sacred Address of Isis to
Horus," 2 and " The Eeply of Horus to Isis;"3 " The Letters
of JEsculapius to the King Ammon; " a work called Panaretos,
or " On all the Virtues;"4 and another called " The Kyran-
nides."5 According to Manetho, there were 36,525 Her-
metic books, but this is now recognised as an astronomical
number.6
The works of King SupMs, or the celebrated Cheops, who
built the great Pyramid, were theological;"' others of Atlwtliis
the King, the son of Menes,8 who was a physician, treated
1 Zoega, 1. c. 515. = Ibid. n. 39.
3 Iamblichus, de Mysteriis. Cyril, lib. 1 and 2, contra Julian. Lactantius,
Instit. divinar. lib. 1, 2, 4, 7. St. Augustin, de Civit. Dei, VIII.; Syncell.
Chron.; Stobiens : Galen, vi. p. c. 1.
* Fabricius, Bibl. Grac. c. viii. 5, 6, p. 64.
5 Zoega, 1. c. 515. ° Syncellus, Chronogr. p. 51.
' Syncell. Cbron. p. 5G. ed. Goar. s Syncell. 1. c. 54.
of Egypt and scheme of the Nile, an account of the supplies
of the temples and the lands apportioned to them, touching
on measures and the requisites of sacred things. Another of
the works referred to the sealing of victims and the instruction
of youth; ten others to the honours to be rendered to the
gods, and other actions of Egyptian piety, as sacrifices, first-
fruits, vows, ceremonies, feasts, and similar things. Ten more
books embraced the laws of the country and of the gods, and
the instruction of the priests. Altogether, there were
forty-two of these works—thirty-six embracing the philo-
sophical notions of the Egyptians, and the other six
medicine.
The titles of some of the Hermetic books were : " Physics,
Origin, the Key, the Bowl;" "The Hidden Word;" "Con-
cerning Universal Nature ; " " To His own Mind ; " " Address
to the Tat, to Ammon, to Asclepios, the Asclepios ; " ] " The
Damsel of the World," or " The Sacred Address of Isis to
Horus," 2 and " The Eeply of Horus to Isis;"3 " The Letters
of JEsculapius to the King Ammon; " a work called Panaretos,
or " On all the Virtues;"4 and another called " The Kyran-
nides."5 According to Manetho, there were 36,525 Her-
metic books, but this is now recognised as an astronomical
number.6
The works of King SupMs, or the celebrated Cheops, who
built the great Pyramid, were theological;"' others of Atlwtliis
the King, the son of Menes,8 who was a physician, treated
1 Zoega, 1. c. 515. = Ibid. n. 39.
3 Iamblichus, de Mysteriis. Cyril, lib. 1 and 2, contra Julian. Lactantius,
Instit. divinar. lib. 1, 2, 4, 7. St. Augustin, de Civit. Dei, VIII.; Syncell.
Chron.; Stobiens : Galen, vi. p. c. 1.
* Fabricius, Bibl. Grac. c. viii. 5, 6, p. 64.
5 Zoega, 1. c. 515. ° Syncellus, Chronogr. p. 51.
' Syncell. Cbron. p. 5G. ed. Goar. s Syncell. 1. c. 54.