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The Jewel of Seven Stars

CHAPTER XIV
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With seven fingers on one hand, and seven toes on one foot.

With a talisman of a rare ruby with seven stars in the same position as in that constellation which ruled her birth, each star of the seven having seven points--in itself a geological wonder--it would have been odd if she had not been attracted by it.
Again, she was born, we learn in the Stele of her tomb, in the seventh month of the year--the month beginning with the Inundation of the Nile.
Of which month the presiding Goddess was Hathor, the Goddess of her own house, of the Antefs of the Theban line--the Goddess who in various forms symbolises beauty, and pleasure, and resurrection.

Again, in this seventh month--which, by later Egyptian astronomy began on October 28th, and ran to the 27th of our November--on the seventh day the Pointer of the Plough just rises above the horizon of the sky at Thebes.
"In a marvellously strange way, therefore, are grouped into this woman's life these various things.

The number seven; the Pole Star, with the constellation of seven stars; the God of the month, Hathor, who was her own particular God, the God of her family, the Antefs of the Theban Dynasty, whose Kings' symbol it was, and whose seven forms ruled love and the delights of life and resurrection.

If ever there was ground for magic; for the power of symbolism carried into mystic use; for a belief in finites spirits in an age which knew not the Living God, it is here.
"Remember, too, that this woman was skilled in all the science of her time.


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