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Show I Church Department 7 ii"ii"j- Joseph TItE DESERET NEWS, pATtTRPAY, SEPTEMBER 51, 1035 - Smith-- 3 Prom rjr Thro) f i, thorn tho task assumed to the giant Atlas w !nhth; sharing among tho Greek Myth. A fhlrii, ami even morel fantastic, representation showed the gnddees railed Nut, or Nool, th feminine eounlejiart of Nu, the sky-goand father of Osiris. bending over the earth (hat, her body forms the heaven, supported by her legs a tut feet, occasionally abo by her arms ami hands, roting upon ttie gwaiml. Within the "sqnaA'.l foun-- d by her'jihrson, in this umMHifort posture, a second, similar figs jMe wre is shoen bndtn in tlie same fashion; d, wilhin, the hoop, so formed is lil a third, supposed td represent ghu, brother of Nt, god Bxl of tho air, or else Kcb, god of tho earth, standing impossibly upotj his fyot and shoulder, with his a ms, head and neck Jylng along (ho gfoutid, 1'inis, by pergonifiratlon or elaboration we have th thre "iie-terectangles diagra toed sh Our panel It, Such a ne," eon sisting of two or of three quar--h hoops, Indicates tho or sky "heavens to . C.linmno- ltins I tetionary, and, ns f united by olhcfa. Toaccording recognise the Implied mejiotng suggests Eg, ptoiogiea! knowledge. And the man w lit) wrote the estptioirtsoeins io li.no recognized this figure I In tho examination of ,lt,e (ign.e numb- -. ,ui VlO in wo the plate, fmd a rto-el- y sundae s.toalion, to th. extent' that the iecou.d of it, as given in the enphon, sugg-- d TumilinlMy with Egyptian ehiuaeteKs and symbol.! we rerognire a furnish mg known to Egyptologists - of this pltti ho fmmIurtt 6 e,,undr ll h-- op J a houi in ttumon flmi foil ml has Ml nil except and the 1 crooodVor "attar, bearing mnm reicmuu,(,0 nnS or reeog,, ,,. ,im imrUcuSirly Oil of all thfse figUiVs-fttd four rprmer-consti- li.te an initial difficulty, or, as IMV ,1 pioblem for any otte considering the triptitional as'pc.ihahly' defimsiW, This if true, heeai,sk (hoc figu.es, j.lu, i sha ad with pDuion Uiei Canolo ..see, a of inn, mi, led deceased, tact, they hmcLn rVhuted most cogent ei hlniuie, i t,- W Egy,dohica critics, that we hive hcie only a varn tp'n of am h fafmliar funerary scene have heeo tontion as their apiarent pron Snenee require, with tL view to 1,1-!aj'Ologie may h "7! tar vt"liafl0 Ho '" leiameiey who U Uieir mesenee seems to erkalif Norexplain shall wy fmd in ur examination of belevaut condition that all tL advantw. on U10 ule of DOfavorahle ent loitn 5rSt '"n!'",,'riUi'MI 10 wged in, bur analysis nutst bo. that while the presence fif theg familiar figures Oeetn to indicate that wo hava her only a Jvarialhm of 4ome familiar funerary picture tho analysis of tho several epinjionCnt ftgures-parUrulof nu dining figure have demonslrated dedepadures from scription.. For, in Ui sup.Litlot, that th.a seen such altered rim any original' resembling Uch funerary pictures, ti,a . , belief that the alteration mut have heed effected! find . anciently strong supirl in t,he Egypt ologteal consistency of it present ,h bo explain iu And this hm been ex! ! ,'Tiun . plained already. j Another consideration, worliialtenUott. Is o" lb effect that, m indicated by tho captions, lh sections, ort"punol, 0f Urn numbered. it and if, and specify iog, respectively, pillar of drawing, heaven and expanse or firmament over, our head,- - suggegl that tl,e Involved ,s that the drawing separate into two section .the WrU s,ni,e- f1! rcfore, the r,Sur numbered 9 d placed In the 7a'ns" the traditional dwelling place of goda m general, the other "god tj, 6, 7, 8, may claim their tWa thould Lm.orn7aWi Wj,y h7l'e,V thl lwllon'' "I, ravens the other part of the suggest a quest, op worthy And here, M i poLihlS jomideraUon. . 9, ml d. fm 5 ps a Translator . (Continued a- - - , j . u S arly Q tiu-or- jntHur', being mlehded to egny offei mgs of food, etc., for -In tho pi sent picture,- ,t i surmounted Cluster of .flowers, and is flanked by two other figures Of by sog' gextive appearance on the left, apparent iy, by bud or seed-pu- d, o( tile rig til, by tan elongated oval, reseipbliiig a leaf, jieie under, ordik limy ci.eomsianees. one might feel that there werp no need, to analyze fu. (her; or might be entirely acquiescent in Ibq allegation that Just auch a representation flowers, leaf, pod, tie -- may be seen repeatedly in annent.pietliies. But here our attention, ts arrested by tho cap A w at m tion which specifies, unexpectedly enough, that this is another group of 4bjecl.ftnr the, nner of . . , hieroglyphics,- - and' that it me, mng is, "Abraham in Egypt. And, sjn, we have discovered al reudv, several notable examples of Vmncidenre with intelligible meanings, we may feel' inclined to examine this figure also, even in r exportation of finding stilt another. Since we yce here a group of separate objects flowers, etc we may assume that the with the offeripg caption could be ximlei tood to imply that thd meaning, "Abraham in Egypt, is derivable! by comiiiniog sense proper expressed. And, lalthmigh it Is not neeesk ary to suppose (hat the man who first drew! tins picture intended la do hiore than show the objects represented, the fact that each te object baa a definite Hieroglyphic significance, and that they may be Mtobmpd to spell Urn indicated caption, or to moke a piose approach o thii name , Abraham, " in Egyptian characters, must be anotiief ground fof a suspicion that real knowledge is behiluTth ' renderings givon u. JimlJe No. According to eoptions, this scene represent Abrw Thus, faking ilipe oivetg in i, we find that the luun (1) sitting oil nwsqning on the ,f table is that bf b or lb. ,Ttie uaonon, with the King (2), throne, n pHnce (4) of ,Imroh (rtf Ihc'-grroval 0 the right of this - ' hlTh.ui 5) tad bl" Mv0 ? siillmrlUeH --11 m that this Mene has Id suggests! nothing snore familiarly to WTrtLLmio' idenUfylng than the rjmimon picture , of the i ; ; -- i human mouth, or bps, which has to claim, we may have another real In spite of Ihe seem. consistency ' . mg "discrepancy.! the phonetip value, r. TRe rluster Without attenipting to defend any claimed, or believed, of flowers sqrmouuling the fable jor dale for the Bookof Abraham, we must see that its thesisprigin is the correspond La the combination ehn , of protest Abraham against the current "heathenism of his and (hard "h" and "n), although, after his assertion of the proper recognition of the God of Heaven day, gg'aiast ihe analogy of uses of other syf bliPf in. he fa!e kotl. iWdio had obscured Hi name and character llabic. we may fake it in human minds, or bad supplanted Him id the!! t attempt at realone. Then, the "seed-po- d to the ligious service. Consequently, the inference is that the "heavens ' left or the faible, while of. indeterwhich such false gods -- inhabit must be Ui 'lower heavens, minate aluf, in itself, closely sugdomain of darkness gnd alt that it tmplie. With a certain iie grim gest Ihe familiar owl, the equivhumor, they and their habitat are placed underfoot. as of m, Of it is a alent often whiten, course, Egyptologists assert, the extension of such "eon- -, and may bq iaken'lo indicate it, fempluous humor to the picturing of these "false go!s Tlytis, as may be . understood, any for entrails Reveals a date posterior to AbrahanTg'iniiejSiHi, this assertion would comply with the apparently welt established d w,r,hV-'';'."Mgmf!ain,,1,ar w1h he ftcn i f lUrjptian BIRDS fact that fhe praetfeq of embalming the internal organ raiMM, Hem the initial li" is umhI separately the Mn, iMYurdiiiir to tW rould ha v fjropofuni thc"rfndPriftffr " ' from the body of., tlie deceased, and depositing them In several receptacles. dales from some period well after the beginning of ihe possible cmbjna mn, precisely as if several English- t Eighteenth Eynastyj so called, which began with Ainosls I at about ielt( r had been lis,pos-- d in any disorderly manner, and he had ar1700 B, C. many cehturis after Abraham. Even here.! however, ums,! them, so ,as to spoil some intelligible word of name. He vi-the force of the objection would be greatly reduced by consideration no more thin? Ins ability to read the written of the fact that no flaim is made that this particular drawing dates cbaraelers. This abihfy however,, j8 very Close to the matter1 which we liave been from any definite period, nor even Uiat tbo entire eompot, lion a to discover,, if possible, in all of our previous analysis, OoBtlnued Oa Fg 6ve&) toal in tombs the double of r acW ho deceased. to-cal- , sep-ara- f fl-M- cbm-pres- sed wt v? t- Z2Z ' i , forh r: t iw -- 1 |