There are two chapters (114 and 116) of “the Powers of Hermopolis,” and they have been preserved separately both in the older and in the more recent papyri. They are very similar in thought but differently worded, and each throws a certain light upon the other, without however dispelling the obscurity of this very ancient religious composition. Some farther help, however insufficient, is afforded by the pictures of the Book which records the passage of the Sun-god through the twelve hours of the night. 1. _Maāt is borne._ ⁂⁂ is the same word as ⁂⁂⁂, the reduplicated form of ⁂⁂ _to gush_, _spring forth_. But in certain cases it acquires the sense of _being borne_, or _conveyed_, and is written ⁂⁂⁂ in Ptolemaic inscriptions. The corresponding word in chapter 116 is ⁂⁂⁂⁂, which has the same meanings. One of the pictures above alluded to (Lefébure, _Hypogées, Tombeau de Seti_, part IV, pl. 31) represents a boat carrying the Moon-disk, raised upon a stand. A personage kneeling behind is supporting the feather of Maāt. The words ⁂⁂⁂, which are written by way of explanation, might give rise to some misunderstanding were it not for considerations mentioned in the following note. 2. _The Arm_ ⁂ in chapter 114 has for corresponding word ⁂⁂⁂⁂ in chapter 116 implying that _Arm_ is to be taken in a geographical sense, as when we speak of an ‘arm of the sea’. Now the pictures which have been spoken of have the words ⁂⁂⁂, ‘arm of the Urnes,’ inscribed ever the stream down which the Sun-god takes his nightly journey. These pictures have only the value of a commentary on a very ancient text, but they are at least as old as the earliest papyrus which contains the text. 3. _Ment’ait_ ⁂⁂⁂, is the ancient reading in chapter 114, but the later texts have ⁂⁂, _T’ar_. Chapter 116 has ⁂⁂⁂⁂, _Mat’ait_. 4. _Illumined._ The texts are discordant as to the reading. I follow that of the two old papyri which have ⁂; though this orthography, however defensible, is somewhat suspicious. 5. _Kasu._ ⁂⁂⁂, the ‘Burial Place,’ was the metropolis of the 14th Nome of Southern Egypt. Dendera is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and in more ordinary characters ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Like very many other geographical names, it has the feminine form in ⁂, as well as the masculine in ⁂. ----- Footnote 96: There is a copy of the chapter in the tomb of Chā-em-hait, which is our oldest authority. But it is unfortunately mutilated, and all that can be said is, that if the additional words were once there, they have been destroyed. Footnote 97: The Apis tablets (_Zeitschr._, 1882, p. 22) give the name of a place _Pa-ḳerḳ-en Ḥor_, which seems to refer to this catastrophe; the Coptic ⲕⲟⲣϫ, ⲕⲱⲣϫ corresponding to the Greek ἐκκόπτειν, ἐκκλὰν, κατασπᾶσθαι. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CXV. _Chapter whereby one cometh forth into Heaven, and openeth the Ammehit: and whereby the Powers of Heliopolis are known._