To press the identity of ⁂ and ⁂⁂⁂ in the name of this
hour is to forget that its variants would equally prove that
⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂.
Footnote 147:
See _P.S.B.A._ IX, p. 313, and two previous articles of mine there
referred to. The corrections I have to make are the following:—I
wrongly assumed that the _fish_ which in hieratic papyri crosses the
foot of the sign ⁂ in the variants of ⁂ was the same fish as
we find in the group ⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂⁂ = ⁂. The
fishes are different. On referring to M. Naville’s _Festival Hall of
Osorkon II_, pl. 18, pictures will be found of the ⁂⁂ and the
⁂⁂. The first of these is clearly the fish in ⁂⁂,
_ḥem-reu_, and the corresponding sign in the variant is to be read
⁂, _ḥem_, in harmony with the other evidence produced by W. Max
Müller (_Recueil_, vol. IX). The picture of it does not enable one to
determine its species. The pictures at Bubastis of the ⁂⁂
seem to indicate the _Synodontis_, but a picture found by Petrie
(_Medum_, pl. 12) shows an immense fish which has been identified with
the _Latus_ or _Perca_ _Nilotica_. This being of the Acanthopterygian
family is of course a very formidable _warrior_, like our own small
perch, which, as Mr. Ward says, “does not yield its life without
endangering the person of its captor, for the formidable rows of
spinous rays belonging to the first dorsal fin have wounded the hands
of many an incautious angler.”
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PLATE XLII.
BOOK OF THE DEAD.
[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXXXVIIB.
=Papyrus, Brit. Mus., No. 9900.=
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[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXXXIIIAX.
=Papyrus, Brocklehurst II.=
]
[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXXXVIIB.
=Papyrus, Brit. Mus., No. 9900.=
]
[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXXXVIA. =Papyrus, Leyden II.=
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PLATE XLIII.
BOOK OF THE DEAD
[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXL. =Mus. du Louvre. No. III, 52.=
]
[Illustration:
CHAPTER CXXXVIII. =Papyrus, Busca.=
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CHAPTER CXXXVIIA.
_Chapter whereby a Light is kindled_(1.) _for a person._
Oh Light! let the Light be kindled for thy Ka, O Osiris Chentamenta. Let
the Light be kindled for the Night which followeth the Day: the Eye of
Horus which riseth at thy temple(2.): which riseth up(3.) over thee and
which gathereth upon thy brow; which granteth thee its protection and
overthroweth thine enemies.
Undefiledly (bis) and successfully (bis):
The light is kindled for Osiris Unnefer: with fresh vases and raiment
like the Dawn.
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CHAPTER CXXXVIIB.
_Chapter whereby a Light is kindled for a person._
The Eye of Horus cometh, the Light one: the Eye of Horus cometh, the
Glorious one.
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