y the hippopotamus with
the Dragon and with certain stars not included in the
constellations surrounding it.

*** The Lion, with its eighteen stars, is represented on
the tomb of Seti I.; on the ceiling of the Ramesseum; and on
the sarcophagus of Htari.

[Illustration: 127.jpg OKION, SOTHIS, AND TWO HOKUS-PLANETS STANDING IN
THEIR BAKKS. 2]

2 From the astronomic ceiling in the tomb of Seti I.
(Lefebure, 4th part, pl. xxxvi.).

The Lion is sometimes shown as having a crocodile's tail. According
to Biot the Egyptian Lion has nothing in common with the Greek
constellation of that name, nor yet with our own, but was composed of
smaller stars, belonging to the Greek constellation of the Cup or to
the continuation of the Hydra, so that its head, its body, and its
tail would follow the [ ] of the Hydra, between the [ ] and [ ] of that
constellation, or the [ ] of the Virgin.

Most of the constellations never left the sky: night after night they
were to be found almost in the same places, and always shining with the
same even light.

[Illustration: 128.jpg SAHU-ORION. 1]

1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a small bronze in the Gizeh
Museum, published by Mariette, in the _Album photographique
du Musee de Boulaq_, pl. 9. The legs are a modern
restoration.

Others borne by a slow movement passed annually beyond the limits of
sight for months at a time. Five at least of our planets were known
from all antiquity, and their characteristic colours and appearances
carefully noted. Sometimes each was thought to be a hawk-headed Horus.
Uapshetatui, our Jupiter, Kahiri-(Saturn), Sobku-(Mercury), steered
their barks straight ahead like Iauhu and Ra; but Mars-Doshiri, the
red, sailed backwards. As a star Bonu, the bird (Yenus) had a dual
personality; in the evening it was Uati, the lonely star which is
the first to rise, often before nightfall; in the morning it became
Tiunutiri, the god who hails the sun before his rising and proclaims the
dawn of day.

Sahu and Sopdit, Orion and Sirius, were the rulers of this mysterious
world. Sahu consisted of fifteen stars, seven large and eight small,
so arranged as to represent a runner darting through space, while the
fairest of them shone above his head, and marked him out from afar to
the admiration of mortals.

[Illustration: 129.jpg ORION AND THE COW SOTHIS SEPARATED BY THE
SPARROW-HAWK. 1]

1 Scene from the rectangular