”If we put the facts already known into diagrammatic form, we find that the condition of things is something like the following:

                                                          HORUS = SUN, PLANET, OR CONSTELLATION RISING

Sun.                                                  Planets.                                           Constellations.

Horus                                               Mars as                             Orion                        Northern constellations                                                  

                                                          Hor-χuti                             Sah-Horus               Set-Horus

                                                          (Laughing Horus)

                                                          (Red Horus)

The table shows that, although the Egyptians undoubtedly called the rising sun Horus, the planets and constellations when rising were in certain cases called Horus too. We do not get any individual star rising referred to as Horus; they were always considered as goddesses.”

“These and other facts may be brought together in a tabular form, to show what apparently the complete mythology of Isis meant:

                                                          ISIS = ANYTHING LUMINOUS TO THE EASTWARD HERALDING SUNRISE

Dawn.                                               Moon.                                                                                           

Isis                                                    Isis                                                                                                                                          

γ Draconis.                             Antares.                              α Columbae.                                Sirius.                          Doubtful.                                                          

(3000 B.C.)                               (3700 B.C.)                          (Before 3000 B.C.)                      (After 3000 B.C.)          (Probably late.)                   

Isis                                             Serk-t                                    Teχi                                             Isis                                 Anuqa    

Hathor (hawk                           (N. Egypt)                            Amen-t                                        Hathor (cow)               Hak

and hippotamus)                                                                                                                         Rā-t                               Haka

Mut (vulture)                           α Centauri.                                                                                                                      Hak-t

Sechet / Bast                            (3700 B.C.)                                                                                                                       Hequet

(lion or cat)                               (S. Egypt)                                                                                                                        Maloul

Menkh

Tafnet

Apet

Nebun

It will be seen that in the case of Isis we are not dealing merely with a rising star, while, so far as I know, Hathor is limited to stars.”

“We already know that the setting sun became Osiris, Atmu, or Tmu, and. whatever the names, they were all represented as mummies. But the sun was not the only body that was symbolized as Osiris; the moon and stars were at times symbolised in the same way. We may, indeed, venture to make the following generalised statement:

                                                          OSIRIS = ANY CELESTIAL BODY BECOMING INVISIBLE

Sun Setting.                    Moon Waning.                Planet Setting.                      Stars Setting.                     Bodies Paling at Dawn.

                                                                                                                                                                                     Stars.              Planets.           Osiris                                 Osiris                                Venus as Osiris                    Khons-Osiris                       Sah-Osiris     Venus

                                                                                                                                      Ptah-Osiris                                                  Star of Osiris

                                                                                                                                      Min-Osiris                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

“Provisionally, we may hazard the assertion that the mummy form marks a setting star, as the horns and disk mark a rising ones. We get the antithesis between Osiris and Isis. 

We gather, then, that the wonderful old-world myth of Isis and Osiris is astronomical from beginning to end, although Osiris in this case is not the sun, but the moon. But I have not yet finished with the mummy form; the waning moon is also Osiris. It is supposed to be dying from the time of full moon to new moon. The Egyptians in their mythology were nothing if not consistent; the moon was called Osiris from the moment it began to wane, as the sun was Osiris so soon as it began to set. A constellation paling at sunrise was also Osiris.”