------------------------------------ CHAPTER CXVI. _Chapter whereby one knoweth the Power of Hermopolis._ Neith dawneth forth in Mat’at, and Maāt is conveyed upon the Arm of the Eater of the Eye by him who reckoneth it out. I know it, and I am therefore led in through the Sem priest. I tell it not to men, I repeat it not to the gods (and conversely). I enter as one who knoweth not, and seeth not. Hail, ye gods who are in Hermopolis. Know ye me as I know Neith, that the Eye may be made firm and permanent. I take delight in reckoning out that which is reckoned. I know the Powers of Hermopolis who are great at the beginning of the month, and diminished at the fifteenth day. They are Thoth the Unseen, Sau and Tmu. _If this chapter be known, filth is avoided, and lye is not drunken._ NOTE. This is the last of the chapters concerning the Powers of certain places. Of their positive antiquity there can be no doubt, whatever alterations they may have undergone. But they are relatively modern with respect to other chapters, _e.g_, the 17th. Mr. Goodwin used to compare them with Christian legends of the mediæval period. These are ancient enough as far as we ourselves are concerned, but no one would think of judging by them of primitive Christianity. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CX. _The Beginning of the Chapters of the Garden of Hotepit, and of the Chapters of coming forth by day; and of entering and coming forth in the Netherworld, and of arriving at the Garden of Aarru, at the Rise(1.) in Hotepit and at the Grand Domain, blest with the breezes: that I may take possession there and be in Glory there: that there I may plough and mow: that there I may eat and drink and love: doing whatsoever things are done upon earth._ Horus is seized by Sutu: who looketh as one turning(2.) towards the Garden of Hotepit. But for me Sutu releaseth Horus: and the double path which is nigh to Heaven is thrown open by Sutu. And Sutu taketh his portion of the breeze through the Power of his own day,(3.) and he delivereth the bowels of Horus from the gods below. Lo, I sail the great Bark on the Stream of the god Hotep. I took it at the mansion of Shu. The mansion of his stars is again and again renewed.(4.) I sail upon its streams that I may come to the domains thereof. For I am in unison with his successive changes and his rules, and his papyrus,(5.) and his attendant gods, and his chieftains. He reconcileth the two Warrior gods with those who have the charge of food and the beautiful creation which he raiseth up; and he reconcileth the two Warrior gods with each other.(6.) He severeth the mourners from those who quarrel with them: he putteth a stop to them whose hand is violent against those weaker than themselves: he keepeth within bounds the contentions of the Powers.