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THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAINTS.
| By the Mormon Prophet. | By the Hieroglyphists. |
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| last words inform us that the personage in whose mummy this hypocephalus was found was called S'es'enq or S'esonchis, a name written Sesak in the Bible, and of which there is no known example anterior to the twenty-second dynasty; that is, to the ninth century before our era, but which may be much posterior to it.
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| XI. Also. If the world can find out the numbers, so let it be. Amen. | |
| XII. to XX, will be given in the own due time of the Lord.
The above translation is given as far as we have any right to give, at the present time. |
XII–XV. Four lines of writing similar to the former, of which they are the pendant. They appear to be numbered upside down, and are illegibly copied. |
| XVI.–XVII. Two more lines which cannot be deciphered in the copy. It begins above the god with two human heads, fig. 2; and there is in it twice mention made of a sacred dwelling-place in Heliopolis. | |
| XIX.–XXI. These columns of writing, illegible in the copy. It is evident to me that several of the figures to be found in these various MSS. have been intentionally altered.
T. Devéria. |
No. III.
Initial painting of a funerary MS. of the Lower epoch, which cannot be anterior to the beginning of the Roman dominion.
INTERPRETATION
| By the Mormon Prophet. | By the Hieroglyphists. |
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| Fig. I. Abraham sitting upon Pharaoh's throne by the politeness of the king, with a crown upon his head, representing the Priesthood, as emblematical of the grand Presidency in Heaven; with the sceptre of justice and judgment in his hand. | Fig. I. Osiris on his seat. |
