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Identifier: journeytogreatsa02remy (find matches)
Title: A journey to Great-Salt-Lake City
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Remy, Jules, 1826-1893 Brenchley, Julius L. (Julius Lucius), 1816-1873
Subjects: Remy, Jules, 1826-1893 Brenchley, Julius L. (Julius Lucius), 1816-1873 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormon Church
Publisher: London : W. Jeffs
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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world canfind out these numbers, so letit be. Amen. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,19, and 20, will be given in 6, The four funerary genii,the sons of Osiris, Amset,Hapi, Tioumautew, and Kebh-soniw. 7, The form of Ammon, witha birds tail, or Horammon (?).An ithyphallic serpent, withhuman legs, offers him a sym-bolical eye. This last figurehas certainly been altered inthe hypocephalus of the Mor-mons. 8, 9,10,11. Four lines of thelinear hieroglyphic text, whichare numbered from bottom totop, instead of from top tobottom. The meaning is:—O great God in Sekhem; 0 greatGod, Lord of heaven, earth, andhell. . . Osiris Ses^enq. Theselast words inform us that thepersonage in whose mummythis hypocephalus was found,was called Sesenq or Seson-chis, a name written Sesak inthe Bible, and of which thereis no known example anteriorto the twenty-second dynasty;that is, to the ninth centurybefore our era, but which maybe much posterior to it. 12-15. Four lines of writingsimilar to the former, of which \
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NOTES. 545 the own due time of theLord. The above translation isgiven as far as we have anyright to give, at the presenttime. they are the pendant. Theyappear to be numbered npside-down, and are illegibly copied. 16-17. Two more lines, whichcannot be deciphered in thecopy. The upper line is thefirst. 18. A circular legend, al-most illegible in the copy. Itbegins above the god with twohuman heads, fig. 2; and thereis in it twice mention made ofa sacred dwelling-place in He-liopolis. 19-21. Three columns ofwriting, illegible in the copy.It is evident to me that severalof the figures to be found inthese various MSS. have beenintentionally altered. T. Deveria. No. 3. INITIAL PAINTING OF A FUNERARY MS. OF THE LOWER EPOCH,WHICH CANNOT BE ANTERIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THEROMAN DOMINION. Interpretation, By the Mormon Prophet. By the Hicroglyphists. Fig. 1. Abraham* sitting Fig. 1. Orisis on his seat,upon Pharaohs throne, by thepoliteness of the king, with acrown upon his head, repre-senting th

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