signs since it was between the signs of Leo and Virgo, and we have but
to multiply 2,150 by 3 to determine that it has been about 6,450 years
ago. Hence, the tourist to the Nile valley, when viewing, near the base
of old Cheops, the great Egyptian pyramid, a colossal head and bust of
a woman, carved in stone, and learns that it is attached to a body, in
the form of a lion in a crouching attitude 146 feet long, hidden
beneath the shifting sands of the Libyan desert; if possessed of the
knowledge of the precession of the Equinoxes, he will be enabled to
solve the riddle of the Sphinx by recognizing in that grotesque
monument the mid-summer symbol of solar worship, when the Summer
Solstice was between the signs of Leo and Virgo.


The Dragon.

When the Summer Solstice was between the signs of Leo and Virgo, the
Winter Solstice was between those of Aquarius and Pisces, and the
figure composed of the body of a man with the tail of a fish became the
mid-winter symbol of solar worship. Such was the form of this symbol to
which the ancient Phoenicians paid homage to the Lord under the name of
Dagon.


The Bull.

At the same time the Summer Solstice entered the sign of Leo, the
Vernal Equinox entered that of Taurus, and the bull becoming the spring
symbol of solar worship--the Lord was designated in the ancient
allegories as the bull of God which taketh away the sin of the world;
which, shorn of its allegorical sense, signifies the sun in Taurus, or