The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

200 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
: Zootypes Man, Lion, Ox, and Eagle. The hair
and features of these are the same as those of the
" "
Suk of Africa, from whom they descended.
Fig. 77 represents Ramman, God of the Axe
of the Chaldeans. We have here a different type
of man from the Ramman -Susian ; he wears a
" conical hat and long robe," and his hair and
features show a later type of evolution ; yet we
find that he is also God of the Axe ;
the interpreta-
tion of all the Symbols portrayed here proves
that these people had the same Cult or religion.
Ramman, the central figure, is shown as coming
forth from the under -world, one foot on the mount
of the Eastern Horizon ; above, we have portrayed
two Pillars, North and South, and two Horizons,
East and West, with the Sun depicted as rising
and setting in each. Therefore God of the North
and South, and God of the East and West. Below
this we have, on the left, the Ideograph
'
He
ascended " or " He has risen," and on the right
we have the Star with eight rays, with the centre,
which is a Symbol or Ideograph for the Chief or
Great One as the 8th— i.e. J -\- i, which was Stellar
and Luna first, and the earliest Solar form before
Ptah, who had the Cycle of 9. Below we see the
under-world depicted with the Solar orb traversing
it. This is Atum-Iu, God of the Double Equinox
or Double Horizon of Egypt, the same as we have
depicted with the other Gods.