[167] Lanzoni, p. 692. [168] Rawlinson, vol. i., p. 371. [169] Naville, "Mythe d'Horus," p. 8. [170] "Mythe d'Horus," p. 7. [171] "Mythe d'Horus," p. 7. [172] "Hist. Anc.," p. 33. [173] "Hibbert Lectures," p. 155. [174] In modern German, even, the Moon is masculine and the Sun feminine. [175] Maspero, _op. cit._, p. 14. [176] _Annu_ and _An_ (Denderah): (? "la grande Tribu des Anou" of Maspero?) [177] _Op. cit._, p. 315. [178] I think I am right about the Tortoise, for I find the following passage in Jensen, p. 65, where he notes the absence of the Crab:--"Ganz absehend davon, ob dasselbe für unsere Frage von Wichtigkeit werden wird oder nicht, muss ich daran erinnern, das unter den Emblemen, welche die sogenannten 'Deeds of Sale' häufig begleiten, verschiedene Male wie der Scorpion so die Schildkröte abgebildet gefunden wird." [179] According to a communication of Dr. Tetens, Aldebaran rose heliacally at the beginning of spring for Babylon 6900 years ago. [180] With regard to these legends Jensen writes: "Now it is remarkable that the oldest historical king about whom the Babylonians know anything, Sargon of Agadi (?) is said to have lived about 3750 B.C.--_i.e._, 5639 years ago--and that his son is called Narām-Sīn = 'favourite of Sīn,' the moon-god. And if we bear in mind that the zodiac with its signs plays into the Babylonian legends of creation, and that the Hebrew cosmogonic legends are derived from these, it is for us even more remarkable that the Jews place the creation of the world 5649 years ago, however much the figures derived from the Bible, according to other computations and traditions, may depart therefrom. Whether this is accidental or not, I do not profess to judge." [181] "Astronomisches aus Babylon," pp. 117-133. [182] "Die Sterntafeln in den ägyptischen Konigsgräbern von Bibân el-Molûk," von Gustav Bilfinger (p. 69). [183] In the lists of temples which follow, all the orientations were obtained from azimuths taken with a theodolite, either from the sun or from the planet Venus. In almost every case two or more sights were observed, and occasionally also the performance of the instrument was tested by stars at night. The heights subtended by the visible horizon opposite to the axes of the temples were also observed. [184] _See_ _Nature_, February 25, 1892, and May 11, 1893. [185] R indicates a rising, and S a setting observation. [186] With regard to a temple of Minerva using α Arietis at Tegea, Mr. Penrose writes:--"Minerva is allowed by the poets to have been able to use Jupiter's thunder, so this is no misappropriation of the star. Juno also seems to have claimed the use of α Arietis as at Samos, and at Girgenti it suits the orientation of the temple of Juno better than Spica. But Spica seems to have been connected with the worship of Juno and Diana in their more strictly female capacity."