6. Idem, to which a single uræus and a wing are attached.
7. Idem, with two uræi and two wings.
8. Idem, with one wing.
9. Idem, accompanied by the numeral one and the sign for heaven, to which a cross-shaped star is hanging.
10. Idem, resting in the centre of the summit of a twin mountain.
11. Idem, resting in the centre of a boat.
12. Idem, with a central star instead of a dot constituting the word duat=“lower hemisphere” (Brugsch).
13. The variant of this, cited by Brugsch.
14. The disk containing a single eye.
My prolonged study of the ancient Mexican picture-writings having given me the habit of regarding each primitive symbol as a possible rebus led me to look up the phonetic values of the symbols combined with the Ra sign and to note that some of them were actually mentioned in connection with Amen-Ra in the texts cited above, namely: the face, the eye, the egg, the uræus, the disk, the “serpent Mehen.” It was a surprise to find, on simply referring to the glossaries, that the name for uræus=ara and that eye=ari; an egg=ar (also sa, se, and suht); face=hra; [pg 392] each word thus containing the name Ra=god, in simple or inverted form (see fig. [63], 1-4). The natural inference was that I had obtained an insight into the method devised by the ingenious Egyptian priesthood, to express, in cryptic form, the name of the “hidden god.”