Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: IV. How A Month
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
To represent a month they delineate a PALM BRANCH, or, the MOON INVERTED.
[paragraph continues] A palm branch for the reason before mentioned respecting the palm tree; and the moon inverted, because they say, that, in its increase, when it has come to fifteen degrees, 1 it appears in figure with its horns erect; and in its decrease, after having completed the number of thirty days, 2 it sets with its horns inverted.
III. The twelve months, divided into three seasons:
| Season of Vegetation. | | | |
| Thoth. | Paophi. | Hathor. | Choiak. |
| Season of Harvest. | | | |
| Toby. | Mechir. | Phamenoth. | Pharmuthi. |
| Season of Inundation. | | | |
| Pachon. | Paoni. | Epiphi. | Mesori. |