This chapter occurs in only two of the ancient MSS. collated by Naville: _Ae_ and _Pf_. It is also found in the papyrus of Ani. 1. ⁂ ‘unicus,’ the Sole and Only One, is one of the many appellatives of the Sun. He is here represented as shining _in_ or _from_ the Moon. _Cf._ note on Chapter 132. 2. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ‘multitude, throng, train,’ here put for the ‘heavenly host,’ the ἄκριτος ἄστρων ὄχλος (Euripid., _Fr._ 596), or the Hebrew עבא חשׁמים. Osiris is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ‘the leader of the host,’ Sharpe, I, 105. 3. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ אל־מהוץ, foras, ‘forth, out of doors, at large,’ in opposition to enclosure in the tomb. 4. ⁂⁂, explicare, ‘disclose, unfold, reveal, make clear.’ 5. Or ‘among the Glorious ones,’ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER III. _Another chapter like it._ Oh Tmu, who proceedest from Ur-henhenu,(1.) who art resplendent as the Lion-faced,(2.) and who strewest thy words to those who are before thee; Here cometh the faithful _N_, from the band of those who do the bidding of thy words. O ye seamen of Râ at the gloaming of the day, let _N_ live after death, like Râ daily. _Here the helmsman_: As Râ is born from Yesterday, so he too is born from Yesterday, and as every god exulteth in life, so shall _N_ exult even as they exult in life. I am Thoth as he goeth forth from the House of the Prince in Heliopolis.(3.) NOTES. The only ancient copy of this chapter is in the papyrus of Amen-neb (_Ae_), and here it is imperfect. 1. A personification of the Nile, ⁂⁂⁂. The later texts read ⁂⁂⁂ ‘the great goddess in the Water.’ 2. The later texts have ⁂⁂⁂⁂, implying the two lions Shu and Tefnut. But the older texts have ⁂⁂⁂⁂, a single god, with a lion’s face or form. The two notions, however, are found in combination in the Pyramid texts of Unas (l. 558) and Teta (l. 332). 3. See note 8 on Chapter 1. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER IV. _Another Chapter, for travelling on the road which is above the earth._ It is I who travel on the Stream(1.) which divideth the divine Pair,(2.) I am come, let there be given to me the lands of Osiris. NOTES. This fourth chapter has not as yet been found in any of the papyri of the best period. 1. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, literally ‘weeping,’ ‘flood of tears,’ hence ‘overflow, inundation, stream or canal.’ It is one of the names of the Nile on earth and in heaven and of his personification as a god. See Chapter 61, and _P.S.B.A._, XIII, p. 8 and 9.] 2. ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ are two divinities in opposition or contrast, like Set and Horus (Chapter 17, 25) or the sister goddesses named ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Mertȧ_ (37, 1). Thoth is the umpire between Set and Horus (Darkness and Light) and mediates between them, but he and Râ (the Moon and Sun) are (Teta, l. 69) spoken of as the two Rehu gods travelling over the sky.]