Har-oeri was the god of TIME, as well as of Life. The Egyptian legend was that the King of Byblos cut down the tamarisk-tree containing the body of OSIRIS, and made of it a column for his palace. Isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. Apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets;" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. The palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. If the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. [Illustration: Hieroglyph] The identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient Egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the Lion's grip and the Master's gavel. [Hebrew: אב], in the ancient Phoenician character, [Symbols], and in the Samaritan, [Symbols], A B, (the two letters representing the numbers 1, 2, or Unity and Duality, means _Father_, and is a primitive noun, common to all the Semitic languages.) It also means an Ancestor, Originator, Inventor, Head, Chief or Ruler, Manager, Overseer, Master, Priest, Prophet. [Hebrew: אבי] simply Father, when it is in construction, that is, when it precedes another word, and in English the preposition "of" is interposed, as [Hebrew: אבי-אל], Abi-Al, the Father of Al. Also, the final Yōd means "my"; so that [Hebrew: אבי] by itself means "My father." [Hebrew: דויד אבי], David my father, 2 _Chron._ ii. 3. [Hebrew: ו], (Vav) final is the possessive pronoun "his"; and [Hebrew: אביו], _Abiu_ (which we read "Abif") means "of my father's." Its full meaning, as connected with the name of Khūrūm, no doubt is, "formerly one of my father's servants," or "slaves." The name of the Phoenician artificer is, in Samuel and Kings, [Hebrew: הירם] and [Hebrew: הירום]--[_2 Sam._ v. 11; 1 _Kings_ v. 15; 1 _Kings_ vii. 40]. In Chronicles it is [Hebrew: הורם], with the addition of [Hebrew: אבי] [_2 Chron._ ii. 12]; and of [Hebrew: אביו]. [_2 Chron._ iv. 16]. It is merely absurd to add the word "_Abif_" or "_Abiff_," as part of the name of the artificer. And it is almost as absurd to add the word "_Abi_," which was a _title_ and not part of the name. Joseph says [_Gen._ xlv. 8], "God has constituted me _'Ab l'Paraah_, as Father to Paraah, _i.e._, Vizier or Prime Minister." So Haman was called the Second Father of Artaxerxes; and when King Khūrūm used the phrase "Khūrūm Abi," he meant that the artificer he sent Schlomoh was the principal or chief workman in his line at Tsūr. A medal copied by Montfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (Iao). She is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her.