The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-03-05
TmE EGYPTIAN OBELIsK IN NEW
YORK.

tian Obelisk, was placed on its own
pedestal in Central Park, New York;
in the three thousand and three or four
hundredth year of its age. This obe-
lisk was originally erected and
stood In Egypt before the temple
of the sun. This was accomplished
by Thothmes III. of the 18th dynasty.
Then, when 1900 years of age, 1t was,
with another nov in London, consti-
tuting a twin pair, removed Aom the
delta of the Nile, their primitive posi-
ton, to Alexandria, in the reign Of
Augustus Caesar, % years B. C.
AS their age is q sufficient guaran-
tee ut least of being worthy of esteem,
some information relating to what is
now to be known as the 1sNew York
Egyptian Obelisk" may not be out of
place. The term ''needle" has long
been applied by moderns to this
obelisk In connection with the name
OF Cleopatra, and also to Its fellow
shaft, but Cleopatra had passed away
eight year before the two-then at
least 1900 years old-were brought
from their original site to Alexandria.
In the Greek language obelisk
means 9 roasting-spit; SO 1t woald
seem that while the meaning OF
..tekhen', the Egyptian name, is un-
known, the English and the Greek
names have only been applied from
playful fancy.
1t would seem also that the obelisk,
as matter of use, was intended by in
scription to perpetuate the achieve
inents and glory of the Egyptian
kings or Pharoahs. The rulers of man.
kind in ancient times became sensi-
BILE that there was nothing to show
hat they had ever lived, except it
might be from an obelish o r q splen-
did tomb. While the worship of the
sun led to elevated shafts that would
sooner catch the morning rays
of the rising orb than ought else,
in an open country, the inscrip-
ton that recorded the glory both
Of the king or Pharoah, and the
sun, was, of course, .'kiiling two
birds with one stone." The king was
called the Child of the Sun, the Lord
of Diadems, with many other iigura-
tive names, such a. Horus the power
full Bull.
The inscriptions on this one shat
or monoleth have been made at differ
ent eras; the first by Thothmes Ill.,;
the other by Rameses II. The GEN.
trail line of each face belongs to
Thothmes, and the two side lines to
Harnesses. The lines dedicated to
Thothmes may be translated and un-
stood to be:
'The Horus, the powerful Bull, crowned in
Western 1hebes. the Lord OF Uiadsms. whose
kingdom Is rs extensive IS the suns in
Heaven. Tum, tho Lord OF Heliopolis, has
caused the Son Of his race . be born Tshu-
times fThothmes ILL.,. The gods made him
. great abode In their own beauty. knowing
what should be. that he should make his do
Of Upper and Lower Egypt. beloved Of Tum.
the glver OF ali life, stability and power, like
the sun forever"
AS with this inscription, so Of all
the rest, that for instance of Rameses:
"The Horus, the powerful Bull, beloved Of
Re 1.-THE sun, hing Of Upper and Lower
Egypt, Usermara, approved OF the GUN. hold
ing the two countries, S0n Of the Sun; hame-
ses beloved VI Amen, the beautiful youth
much beloved, like the disk OF the Sun gieam-
ing from the horizon"
We lind in these inscriptions praises
OF the kings in the language of the
SMILES, expressive, among other
things, of their power, represented by
the bull. We know OF no people who
made so much OF bulls rs the Egypt
isns, except 1t may be in more mod.
ern times in our Stock Exchanges.
Rams, crocodiles and other animals as
we'll received much attention. Here
Is Thothmes, a king, who Is repre-
sented AZ ~bully-boy, and another, q
Harnesses, represented in another in
scription as a stGolden Hawk" But
how he could be both a ram and a
hawk exceeds our comprehension.
To add to the complication he Is rep
resented to be the beloved of Our old
friend Amen.
We did not expect to find Amen,
that we call $50 be It," associated
with the religions of former days and
standing for one OF the manifestations
OF the sun as a divinity. But it Is
certain that Amen new assumes an
other form, and assists in prayer, in
stead OF being a spirit prayed TO, and