We know, through a precise testimony in the ancient annals of Tsūr, that the principal festivity of _Mal-karth_, the incarnation of the Sun at the Winter Solstice, held at Tsūr, was called his _rebirth_ or his _awakening_, and that it was celebrated by means of a pyre, on which the god was supposed to regain, through the aid of fire, a new life. This festival was celebrated in the month _Peritius (Barith)_, the second day of which corresponded to the 25th of December. KHUR-UM, King of Tyre, _Movers_ says, first performed this ceremony. These facts we learn from _Josephus, Servius_ on the Æneid, and the _Dionysiacs_ of _Nonnus_; and through a coincidence that cannot be fortuitous, the same day was at Rome the _Dies Natalis Solis Invicti_, the festal day of the invincible Sun. Under this title, HERCULES, HAR-_acles_, was worshipped at Tsūr. Thus, while the temple was being erected, the death and resurrection of a Sun-God was annually represented at Tsūr, by Solomon's ally, at the winter solstice, by the pyre of MAL-KARTH, the Tsūrian Haracles.
AROERIS or HAR-_oeris_, the elder HORUS, is from the same old root that in the Hebrew has the form _Aūr_, or, with the definite article prefixed, _Haūr_, Light, or _the_ Light, splendor, flame, the Sun and his rays. The hieroglyphic of the younger HORUS was the point in a circle; of the Elder, a pair of eyes; and the festival of the thirtieth day of the month _Epiphi_, when the sun and moon were supposed to be in the same right line with the earth, was called "_The birth-day of the eyes of Horus_."
In a papyrus published by Champollion, this god is styled "_Har-oeri_, Lord of the Solar Spirits, the beneficent eye of the Sun." Plutarch calls him "_Har-pocrates_;" but there is no trace of the latter part of the name in the hieroglyphic legends. He is the son of OSIRIS and ISIS; and is represented sitting on a throne supported by _lions_; the same word, in Egyptian, meaning _Lion_ and _Sun_. So Solomon made a great throne of ivory, plated with gold, with six steps, at each arm of which was a lion, and one on each side to each step, making seven on each side.
Again, the Hebrew word [Hebrew], _Khi_, means "_living;_" and [Hebrew] _râm, "was, or shall be, raised or lifted up_." The latter is the same as [Hebrew], [Hebrew], [Hebrew], rōm, arōm, harūm, whence _Aram_, for Syria, or _Aramæa, High_-land. _Khairūm_, therefore, would mean "_was raised up to life, or living_."