The copies of this paragraph are as discordant as they are unintelligible. It is idle to guess at the meaning until a better text can be discovered. Footnote 76: Etudes Egyptologiques; sixième livraison. Footnote 77: Here as in the name of ⁂ Tmu, the _long_ sign is written first though read last. Footnote 78: _Cf._ the expressions ⁂⁂⁂⁂ as, Teta, 258, 262, and ⁂⁂⁂⁂. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is not a mere _gate_, but a _hold_, or _keep_. Footnote 79: There is no certainty about the text of the next few words. Footnote 80: I understand by this that the gold is intended to krep the scarab free from defilement. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXV. _Chapter whereby one cometh forth by day and prevaileth over the adversaries._ Oh thou who shinest forth from the Moon, thou who givest light from the Moon, let me come forth at large amid thy train, let me be revealed as one of those in glory. Let the Tuat be opened for me. Here am I: let me come forth upon this day, and be glorified. Let the glorified ones grant to me that I live and that mine adversaries be brought to me in bonds before the divine Circle; may the Genius of my mother be propitiated thereby, as I rise up upon my feet with a sceptre of gold in my hand, and lop off the limbs. May I rise up, a Babe [from between] the knees of Sothis, when they close together.(1.) NOTES. The first part of this chapter is nearly identical with Chapter 2. No copy of it is found in the papyri of the older period. In place of it M. Naville has published a chapter bearing the same title, and which is found in five ancient papyri. These texts however are extremely discordant and corrupt, and in the more difficult, and to us more interesting, passages must have been quite unintelligible to the copyists. The second word, for instance, of line 8 is _ri_ in _Ca_, the corresponding word is .. _ḥtu_ in _Ta_, _ṭāi_ in _Pb_, _rāu_ in _Ia_ and _ḥti_ in _Aa_. A discrepancy not less violent is encountered after the next three words. The oldest extant form of the chapter is that of _Aa_, the papyrus of Nebseni; it is also the shortest, and the other forms appear to me to exhibit signs of interpolation. But M. Naville was quite right in taking the text of _Ca_ as his basis for the collation of the texts. 1. This whole passage, as it stands, in the MSS. is extremely obscure, and I can only make sense of it by conjecturing that a preposition has been omitted by the copyists. The knees of a goddess are frequently mentioned in connection with the birth of a divinity. Here the Babe is mentioned (_cf._ opening of Chapter 42), and the closing of the knees. The word _ānḫ_, ‘live,’ has for its primitive meaning ‘rise up,’ and it is in this sense that I translate it here. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXVI.