OF other erodes, which we know went out from Egypt at the time of the Solar mythos, one, we are told, went to the North and Isles of the West. Some of these people came to Ireland and Cornwall, and in Ireland we find the tomb of Ollamh Fodhla in the form of the hieroglyphic Kha or Cross.
It is a sign of the birthplace which is identical with the temple built in Upper Egypt, at Medum, called the tomb of Rahotep and Wife. This tomb of Ollamh Fodhla is only one of the Druidical temples which we find all over the British Isles, one of the greatest being Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain.
A religion of the Cross was first of all established in the Mysteries of Memphis, as the Cult of Ptah, and his son In-emhetep, otherwise Atum-Horus. There is evidence from the Pyramids of Medum that from eight thousand to ten thousand years ago the dead in Egypt were buried in a faith which was founded on the Mystery of the Cross, and this Mystery was the [168] [169] Great Mystery of Amenta, and from the photograph we see it was the same in Ireland.(1)
The orientation of the "tomb" is very nearly East, though not quite, for it is a little South of East, and this orientation shows that at the time it was built they had reached the stage of Lunar or Solar mythos and had passed the era of Stellar mythology; whether Lunar or Solar it is difficult to say.
It would be a question of interest to know for certain whether all the temples we find oriented South of East were built at the time of Lunar mythology, and those due East of Solar, but at present we have not the means to elucidate this point.
It is also important to note that the Druids had only lintels, not arches, but that the tombs of Yucatan and the Incas possessed arches, therefore a later exodus than the Druids.
There are one or two writers who have distinctly stated that "Salisbury Druidical remains" were not erected by the Druids but by a much older people. These writers, let us assure them, are entirely wrong to make such statements and have no foundation for this assumption, which they evidently believe to be true. The proof that the Druids erected these lies there for anyone to see who understands and can read the records of the past left in stones. The orientation is East or East by South, and these temples were built at the time that the Solar mythos was Practised, and the Druids were the first to bring this doctrine to these Isles; before they came it was Stellar mythos, the remains of which may be seen by anyone at Harland Bay, Cornwall. The orientation of the "tombs" here is North and the burial custom "the thrice-bent man" of the Neolithic age, with a triangular stone over the body with the apex pointing to the Northern or Pole Star and the face also set to the North, as will be shown later on.
The Druids (High Priests from Egypt) brought the Solar mythos with them, and much of the Stellar mythos they found here they merged into and made use of. They never lost anything, but brought all on under different names, and in some cases added to it.
We would particularly draw the reader's attention to photograph I, as it is a very important photograph of a relic of the past, which, in our opinion, should be carefully removed to a museum where it could be properly taken care of. This [170] photograph
(1 The lesser Mysteries were Astro-Mythological, the greater Eschatological.)
from Ireland is taken from a plate in Mr E. A. Conwell's book, and it is a pity the artist could not enlarge it in order to show some of the markings more distinctly; as it is, one has to study it through a lens. However, we have been able to trace the following distinctly:-
Taking the large upper stone between the
two lintels we find engraved on the facing edge this 
which is an ideographic
sign for a nome, a district, a field, a
vineyard. On the right lintel at the base we see 
a syllabic sign, sep or an and 
which is only a part of the hieroglyphic,
the remainder having been destroyed by time or other cause. This
is a Lunar sign. Above this we have the sign of the four quarters
and immediately above this ideographic sign 
;
the back to cut in pieces. On the large stone between the two
lintels the most striking hieroglyphic is at the upper part on
the right half of the stone. Here we have three triangles with
their bases one [171] way, and three triangles with their bases
the other, and a number of concentric circles. 
These we have already shown are also
found on the Boomerangs of he Australians, and amongst the Tribes
of Mexico and Central American States.
As stated before, the most important fact connected with this hieroglyphic is that Mr Fitzgerald Marriott found the same sign on the backs-the apex of each triangle on the spine and the bases extending around the ribs, and concentric circles in front of the men belonging to the Secret Tribal Societies in West Africa, of which no explanation could be given (page 130).
This is the hieroglyphic sign for the "Khui Land," a region of Amenta, Land of the Spirits or Gods. And this is most important to know; because it enables us to say with certainty where was the origin of each-Egypt.
On the right side of the same stone, near
the base of the lower right triangle, we see seven 
depicting the seven Bright or Glorious
Ones (Lesser Bear), the top one representing the pole-star, and
put across to show it is the "Head One" 
. There is also one to the right and one to the foot
of these, the hieroglyphic 
(em)-from,
in, into, on, at, with, out from among, etc.
In the centre of the stone we find Heaven depicted in ten divisions and to the right of this in seven divisions. To the left of the outer ring of the great circle-the Heaven in ten divisionsone can see the hieroglyphic sign of the Land of the Scorpioni.e. Zodiacal West. Although very close to the outer circle this is still very distinct.
The Heaven in ten divisions may also be seen depicted on photograph, as well as the hieroglyphic sign of the Land of the Scorpion-i.e. Zodiacal West.
To the left and lower part of the great circle we find two serpents (Rerek). These are placed precisely as are those in the photograph from Australia. Cf. Photo (page 82).
To the left of the base of the lower left
triangle we have the ideographic sign 
denoting a town or inhabited place, also 
the Sun, Ra, Light, division of time.
an egg, feminine gender.
[172] At the lower part of the great circle
part of the ideographic sign |_| Ka (qa) is found.
At the bottom is the ideographic sign 
for water, any liquid, basin, a lake, a river, the
sea of water, etc.
The following are decipherments of some hieroglyphics on the other photographs; but it must be understood and remembered that syllabic signs have various interpretations according to the determinative ideograph, so that those are only some of many and various interpretations:-
1. The hairy net, which is renewed in the
shadow which passes for a time over the heavenly body.
2. It has been granted (to the Speaker) by those who are in Tattu
to destroy by fire (the souls of) his adversaries.
3. The backbone, the back, to cut in pieces. 4. The Sun, light,
divisions of time.
5. An island, a shore, a maritime country.
6. To die, wickedness, misfortune.
7. The nose or nostrils, to breathe, to smell, to move, to rejoice,
to delight, to shut up.
8. An egg, feminine gender.
9. Any serpent or reptile.
10. The moon and her phases.
11. Corn, wheat, crops, nourishment.
12. A town or inhabited place.
13. Bronze and iron, and objects made of these metals.
14. M.
15. His journeys.
16. His chariot.
17. a r, if, now, to tie together.
18. pet, the sky, heaven.
19. n e b (neb) each, every, all, any, master, etc.
20. r e r (keb) great, deep, name of a god, to resolve, to round,
about.
21. am, kem, to go abroad and forget people.
22. mu, water.
23. set, she, it, its, mountain, to break, they, them, their,
etc.
24. am, dweller in, in, with, among, through, upon, around, etc.
[173] 25. hammemet, the coming generations.
26. (hu) to taste, to speak, to eat.
27. (am) (xu) daylight, splendour.
28. (seb) a star, a constellation, a god.
29. (es) (is) S.
30. (un) when.
31. men.
32. The Tank of Flame is represented several times, part of the
vignette relating to chaps. cxxv. and lxxxvi: in "The Book
of the Dead."
[175]
This sign on the apron of W.G.M.'s, the meaning being well known to Freemasons, is clearly depicted on photograph and on the apron worn by the god Heru-netch-Tuf-Ra (Budge's "Book of the Gods of Egypt"); it is also one way of writing Amsu, the Great Master. The Land of the Scorpion-i.e. Zodiacal West.
Amsu the risen Horus. Horus in the resurrection.
The Shining One. The Divine Being.
The Serpent Rerek.
The Celestial World of Heaven or the universe in ten divisions is represented very distinctly, the earliest thus:
Later, the outer circle was omitted in depicting the same, thus :-
[176] The Mayas and people of Central America had the same both in the eight and ten divisions.
In the Knight of the E degree, the 70 lights in 10 groups originally represented the Heavens, is 70 sub-divisions of the 10 and is much earlier than the 72 sub-divisions of the 12. Of course the Jews, who borrowed this from Egyptians, gave their own version, re 70 years of captivity and Cyrus, etc., which it is not necessary to give fully here, we only wish to show the origin of this.
We have found more than 150 of these ideographic and phonetic determinatives and syllabic signs, identical with those found amongst the Mayas of Yucatan and the aborigines of Australia.
We would here draw attention to the photographs
(page 179) - two from Ireland and one from the central tribes
of Australia. It must be noted that the explanation of the markings
on the Churingas, as given by the present natives, is not the
true meaning, and that they have had these concentric circles
in use for long ages, and that these have always been associated
with the oldest traditions. The true meanings have been lost to
them, and furthermore, the natives state that originally all totem
groups [177] had stone ones and that those who have not them now
have lost or have had them stolen. These concentric circles, as
we have stated before, are associated with the six triangles which
is the Egyptian hieroglyphic for the Khui Land or Land of the
Spirits. 
We have these Churingas
as sacred stones, with concentric circles on them, as a form or
symbol of the everlasting spirit and emblem of the mysteries of
the same. The Mayas have also a similar one, which is somewhat
different in shape, but has the same significance.
This complex Maya sign represents the deity, the universe; and these five radii stand for the numerical five. Taken altogether it represents the five mysteries.
A plate in Mr Conwell's book represents
the five mysteries,(1) which are also depicted by the markings
on the Churinga in the photograph taken from Spencer and Gillen's
book on the Australian aborigines.
r. The Purification.
2. The reception of Sacred Rites.
3. Epopteia or reception.
4. End and design of the Revelation, the building of the heap
and fixing the Crowns.
5. The friendship and interior communion with God, the last,
most powerful and awful of all the mysteries.
Apparently they only knew five of the mysteries, although there were thirty-three in all, the secrets of which up to the present time have, we believe, not been discovered and all had not been evolved at the earliest time (Neolithic age), only completed when the Egyptians had finally worked out their Eschatology.
The characters found on these stones are both symbolic, phonetic and ideographic, and are undoubtedly ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and many are identical with those depicted in
(1 In the mysteries of Mizram there are 90º. These have been concentrated to 33° in the English-Scottish and American chapters, but the whole represents the divisions of the Tuat and Amenta in the Ancient Egyptian Eschatology.)
[180] Spencer and Gillen's book, but although some words and sentences are clear, these writings in stone are so fragmentary and disjointed that it is impossible to decipher them all correctly or to form an interpretation of the whole.
We have given the decipherment of many of the hieroglyphics here, but there are several others which are the oldest form of hieroglyphic, so-called indigenous, and are of Neolithic origin, identical with those found on the ivory tablets and pottery from Naqada and Abydos.
Many readers would no doubt contend that the linear characters found on some of these stones have no relation whatever to the true Egyptian hieroglyphic, but at Naqada and Abydos in the tombs of the earliest dynastic period we find these linear characters side by side with the pure hieroglyphic. In several cases, however, the apparently linear forms are badly scrawled hieroglyphs, and we know from marks on Vases and Pottery found in the royal tomb of Menes that a transition stage had commenced even in indigenous Egyptian Neolithic times in their writings, and that these "linear signs" were the commencement of the same and of purely Egyptian origin and wherever the hieroglyphic for the name of Ptah or Amen Ra is found we know that it must be at the time, or after, Solar Mythos had been instituted, that the exodus of these Druids took place.
We have given photographs here, and if the reader will carefully compare them, he will doubtless arrive at the same conclusion. Of course, a few of the signs appear to differ somewhat, whilst others are identical, but this can be accounted for by the fact that they were inscribed by various scribes.
There is also another proof that the Druids were of a later exodes date than the Egyptians who built the pyramid of Gizeh, the orientation of which is North, and which therefore must have been built at the time of the perfected Stellar Mythos. The orientation of these Druidical temples is East by South, therefore they were built in the time of the Solar Mythos, which confirms our opinion of their Egyptian origin.
Professor Sergi, from his anthropological studies, confirms our opinion that the Druids and inhabitants of these Isles came from an African stock originally, yet there was a still earlier exodus than the Druids in these islands, as is proved by the recent finding of the remains of early Neolithic man in Cornwall, having the practice and belief in Stellar Mythos (Harland Bay, Cornwall) see later on.
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