CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Preface	vii
I.	The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn	1
II.	The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy	9
III.	The Astronomical Basis of the Egyptian Pantheon	20
IV.	The Two Horizons	40
V.	The Yearly Path of the Sun-God	51
VI.	The Probable Hor-Shesu Worship	58
VII.	Methods of Determining the Orientation of Temples	67
VIII.	The Earliest Solar Shrines in Egypt	73
IX.	Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere	86
X.	The Solar Temple of Amen-Rā at Karnak	99
XI.	The Age of the Temple of Amen-Rā at Karnak	113
XII.	The Stars—their Risings and Settings	120
XIII.	The Egyptian Heavens.—The Zodiacs of Denderah	132
XIV.	The Circumpolar Constellations: the Myth of Horus	144
XV.	Temples Directed to the Stars	155
XVI.	Further Inquiries with regard to the Stellar Temples	167
XVII.	The Building Inscriptions	173
XVIII.	The Star Temples at Karnak	182
XIX.	The Personification of Stars—The Temple of Isis at Denderah	192
XX.	The Personification of Stars (Continued)—The Temple of Hathor at Denderah	201
XXI.	Star-Cults	210
XXII.	Star-Cults (Continued)—Amen-t and Khons	220
XXIII.	The Egyptian Year and the Nile	226
XXIV.	The Years of 360 and 365 Days	243
XXV.	The Vague and the Sirian Years	249
XXVI.	The Sothic Cycle and the Use made of It	257
XXVII.	The Calendar and its Revision	266
XXVIII.	The Fixed Year and Festival Calendars	274
XXIX.	The Mythology of Isis and Osiris	287
XXX.	The Temple-Stars	304
XXXI.	The History of Sun-Worship at Annu and Thebes	315
XXXII.	The Early Temple and Great Pyramid Builders	325
XXXIII.	The Cult of Northern as opposed to Southern Stars	341
XXXIV.	The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy—The Northern Schools	359
XXXV.	The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy (Continued)—The Thebes School	371
XXXVI.	General Conclusions as to the North and South Races	387
XXXVII.	The Egyptian and Babylonian Ecliptic Constellations	396
XXXVIII.	The Influence of Egypt upon Temple-Orientation in Greece	412