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that the ⁂⁂⁂ are _stars_.[50] Besides the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ the _stars which set_ and the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ the _circumpolar stars_, whose navigation ⁂⁂⁂ ⲥⲱⲕ is continuous, there are the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ whose name is very significant. ⁂⁂⁂ and ⁂⁂ have the sense of _turning back_,[51] and the only stars whose apparent motion is ever retrograde are the _planets_.

All these stars are supposed as divinities to aid in the navigation of the Bark of Rā. The Egyptians could not have had a correct planetary theory (which only became possible through Kepler), but they understood at least that the motions of the planets were _regular_, and that they depended upon the Sun. Eudoxus is reported to have derived the data for his theory from his Egyptian instructors.

4. Instead of Rā the name of Sut is found in the later texts. Bekenrenef has ⁂⁂.

5. _Septu_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂, the ‘armed,’ one of the Solar appellations, already found in the Pyramid texts (_Unas_, 281). He appears in