The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

84 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
change from the Stellar to the Solar Mythos
(i Chron. xii. 5).
As regards age, the Pyramids were erected at
the earliest time of these astronomical observations,
at the time that Sut (El Shaddai) was the supreme
God of the South, situated at the South Pole Star.
He was always represented as red, and the Arabs
have a tradition that this was the burial-place of
Sut— but of course Sut was mythical, only a type,
and represented night or darkness after. The
Pillar of Red Brick, being less permanent, went
down as predicted in the deluge as a figure of the
Southern Pole, whereas the Pillar of Stone (North
Great Pyramid) remained for ever as an image of
the Celestial Pole, or of Annu, the Site of the
Pillar, in their astronomical mythology. It was
reported by Diodorus that Annu (Heliopolis in the
Solar Mythos) was accounted by its inhabitants to
be the oldest city in Egypt, which may have been
mythically meant, as Annu was also a city or
station of the Pole, the most ancient foundation in
the northern heaven, described in the Eschatology
as a place of a thousand fortresses provisioned for
eternity. The two pillars of Sut and Horus were
primal as pillars of the two Poles, thus figured in
the equatorial regions as the two supports of
heaven, when it was first divided into two portions,
South and North, and the pillar or mount of the
South was given to Sut, and the pillar of the North