18. _The Emerald ones_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂, those who are in the emerald
light of the dawn. The sun rises (Chapter 109) through two sycomores of
emerald.
19. _Which have the force of purification_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂. The
syllable _āb_ expresses the word signifying _horn_ as well as that
signifying _purification_.
The vignettes of the chapter which are here given from different
authorities are explained in their proper place.
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Footnote 98:
See M. Naville’s remarks, _Einleitung_, p. 156.
Footnote 99:
_Mission Arch._, I, p. 125.
Footnote 100:
Also written = ⁂⁂ (_Unas_, 422 and elsewhere).
Footnote 101:
The garden is also called ⁂⁂⁂. Another form is
⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (_Pepi_ I, 309).
Footnote 102:
⁂⁂ _Nebseni_, ⁂⁂ _Sutimes_, ⁂⁂ in all the
later papyri.
Footnote 103:
Compared with ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ in the papyrus of
Nesichonsu, published by M. Maspero, _Miss. Arch._, I, p. 612.
Footnote 104:
The Pyramid Texts have the invocations (_Unas_, 597), “Hail to thee,
Horus, in the domains of Horus; Hail to thee, Sutu, in the domains of
Sutu; Hail to thee, Lion (⁂⁂⁂ _Ȧar_), in the Garden of
Aarru.”
Another derivation is suggested in the “Destruction of Mankind,” line
39, ⁂⁂⁂ (as I read it) an augmented form of ⁂⁂,
_ar_, which does not mean _pluck_, as in Brugsch’s translation, but
_bind_, _fasten_, _twine_, _nectere_, _constringere_, _convolvere_.
This sense would explain the ancient determinatives ⁂, ⁂,
and lead to still more interesting results. For the ancient word
⁂⁂⁂⁂, _ȧarerit_, ‘a vine,’ has thus clearly the same
etymological sense as our European word _vine_. “_Vî-num_ ... attaches
itself to _vî-tis_, _vî-men_, _vî-tex_, and—exactly like the Greek
ϝοῖ-νος—to the Indo-Greek root _vei_, ‘to twine.’ So that _vî-no_
means first ‘creeper,’ then ‘fruit of the creeper,’ finally ‘drink
made from the fruit of the creeper’” (O. Schrader, _Prehistoric
Antiquities_, 324).
Philological speculation might make a further advance.
As ⁂⁂⁂ _ȧar_, is to ⁂⁂ _ār_, so perhaps is
⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ȧarru_ to ⁂⁂ _āru_. The first two
groups are not phonetically identical, but they are certainly allied
and have very much the same meaning; the last has, with some
probability, been identified with the _Vine-branch_, and that, in
conjunction with the text ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (see
_Zeitschr._, 1878, p. 107, and the plate corresponding). “The
Vine-plant is Osiris.” The Greeks, or some of them at least,
identified Osiris with Dionysos (Plutarch, _de Iside et Osiride_, 34,
35). The god is sometimes (as in the papyrus of Nebseni) sitting in a
naos under a vine, from which bunches of grapes are hanging.
Footnote 105:
Here we already have ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂,
⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. See
my article in the _Zeitschr._, 1874, p. 102.
Footnote 106:
It is also the name of a liquid substance ⁂⁂, ⁂⁂,
a produce of the cow, such as cream or clarified butter. It occurs in
all the lists of offerings.
Footnote 107:
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