With regard to the Philæ temple, the amplitude is uncertain, as the measures do not agree; but if we reject Philæ the other coincidences are too remarkable to be neglected.

It is to be hoped that a complete survey of the island will soon be undertaken.

Now, I cannot find any important stars to fit this declination since 7000 B.C. except Canopus and Phact, and the latter is barred because it was used as a rising star, and indeed was the first solstitial Isis.

If we inquire into the conditions relative to Canopus, we find that star had the declination of 64° about 6400 B.C., and that, as determined by the processional globe, it then set heliacally at the autumnal equinox.

If we assume that Canopus is in question, the break between the dates 6400 B.C. and 2150 B.C. has to be explained. There may have been temples at Thebes now destroyed. There seems no doubt that the temple at Philæ, lettered Y by the French and L in Baedeker's Handbook, was the most ancient one on the island, and that the cult was similar to that at Edfû.[87]

It will be most interesting to see whether the suggestion that Canopus was observed in early times at Philæ and Edfû especially, be confirmed.

It is clear that for these and other southern temples an examination of the local conditions and a determination of the places of the southern stars are necessary before the other southern gods and goddesses can be worked out.

We next come to the N.W. quadrant. Here, apparently, we have only to deal with Capella and Spica. Summarising the information detailed in a previous chapter, we find the following temples probably erected to these stars:—

Capella.

Place and Temple.Amp.Sea Horizon.Hills 1° High.Hills 2° High.Remarks.
S. of E.Dec. S.Years.Dec. S.Years.Dec. S.Years.
Memphis12°10°550010¾°535011¼°5300
Annu13°11°532511½°325012°5200
Karnak U27½°24¼°325024¾°315025¼°3050
Thebes
(Petit Temple du Sud)		31½°27¾°260028½°250029°2400
Karnak G35°30¾°205031½°192532°185032½°. 1750. Hills 3° high