1. _Ahi_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, the _Striker_ is one of the names of Horus, who in the inscriptions of Benihassan is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “Horus who striketh down men.” The notion of striking was in later days confined to the beating of the sistrum. Priestly persons bore the title of _Ahi_ as representatives of the youthful Horus, son of Hathor. See _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, XII, p. 460, on “The Sun-stroke in Egyptian.” ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CIV. _Chapter whereby one sitteth in the midst of the great gods._ Let me sit in the midst of the great gods. Let me pass through the place of the Sektit boat. It is the Bird-fly deity(1.) that shall convey me to see the great gods who are in the Netherworld, and I shall be triumphant in their presence. NOTE. 1. _The Bird-fly deity_, Abait; _see_ chapter 76, note. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CV. _Chapter whereby one propitiateth_(1.) _the Ka._ Hail to thee, my Ka, my coeval.(2.) May I come to thee and be glorified and made manifest and ensouled, let me have strength and soundness. Let me bring to thee grains of incense wherewith I may purify myself and may also purify thine own overflow. The wrong assertions that I have uttered, and the wrong resistance which I have offered: let them not be imputed to me. For I am the green gem, fresh at the throat of Rā, given by those who are at the Horizon: their freshness is my freshness [_said twice_], the freshness of my Ka is like theirs, and the dainties of my Ka are like theirs. Thou who liftest the hand at the Balance, and raisest Law to the nose of Rā in this day [of my Ka]: do not thou put my head away from me. For I am the Eye which seeth and the Ear which heareth; and am I not the Bull of the sacrificial herd, are not the mortuary gifts(3.) upon me and the supernal powers [_otherwise said_: the powers above Nut]. Grant that I may pass by thee, and may purify myself and cause the triumph of Osiris over his adversaries.(4.) NOTES. 1. _Propitiate_, ⁂. The simple root ⁂ _ḥetep_ signifies, what is implied by the ideographic sign ⁂, the _taking hold_, _embracing_, and kindred notions (_Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, Vol. X, p. 578). The notion of appeasing an angry personage is no more necessarily involved in the Egyptian word than in the Latin _propitiare_. M. Léfebure’s translation, _réunir_, in the title of this chapter is perfectly correct as far as it goes. See in _Denkm._, III, pl. 34, b, the picture of Thothmes III being greeted by his _ka_. Rameses II and other kings are often represented in the act of supplicating their own _ka_. 2. _My coeval_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or, as some might prefer, my _duration of life_.