CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Preface	vii
[I].	The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn	1
[II].	The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy	9
[III].	The Astronomical Basis of the Egyptian Pantheon	20
[IV].	The Two Horizons	40
[V].	The Yearly Path of the Sun-God	51
[VI].	The Probable Hor-Shesu Worship	58
[VII].	Methods of Determining the Orientation of Temples	67
[VIII].	The Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt	73
[IX].	Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere	86
[X].	The Solar Temple of Amen-Rā at Karnak	99
[XI].	The Age of the Temple of Amen-Rā at Karnak	113
[XII].	The Stars—their Risings and Settings	120
[XIII].	The Egyptian Heavens.—The Zodiacs of Denderah	132
[XIV].	The Circumpolar Constellations: the Myth of Horus	144
[XV].	Temples Directed to the Stars	155
[XVI].	Further Inquiries with regard to the Stellar Temples	167
[XVII].	The Building Inscriptions	173
[XVIII].	The Star Temples at Karnak	182
[XIX].	The Personification of Stars—The Temple of Isis at Denderah	192
[XX].	The Personification of Stars (Continued)—The Temple of Hathor at Denderah	201
[XXI].	Star-Cults	210
[XXII].	Star-Cults (Continued)—Amen-t and Khons	220
[XXIII].	The Egyptian Year and the Nile	226
[XXIV].	The Years of 360 and 365 Days	243
[XXV].	The Vague and the Sirian Years	249
[XXVI].	The Sothic Cycle and the Use made of It	257
[XXVII].	The Calendar and its Revision	266
[XXVIII].	The Fixed Year and Festival Calendars	274
[XXIX].	The Mythology of Isis and Osiris	287
[XXX].	The Temple-Stars	304
[XXXI].	The History of Sun-Worship at Annu and Thebes	315
[XXXII].	The Early Temple and Great Pyramid Builders	325
[XXXIII].	The Cult of Northern as opposed to Southern Stars	341
[XXXIV].	The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy—The Northern Schools	359
[XXXV].	The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy (Continued)—The Thebes School	371
[XXXVI].	General Conclusions as to the North and South Races	387
[XXXVII].	The Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic Constellations	396
[XXXVIII].	The Influence of Egypt upon Temple-Orientation in Greece	412