2. ⁂⁂⁂, the _secrets_, here as elsewhere in the funereal texts, are those of the tomb and of the world beyond the grave. 3. The older texts have ⁂⁂, the later, ⁂. 4. The Lord of Law is in the singular, but the imperative ‘remove’ is in the plural. 5. The word ⁂⁂ was a puzzle to the oldest transcribers. It is susceptible of different meanings. The Turin text ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘the god is joined with Law,’ which is supported by some of the older papyri, is intelligible in itself, but not in this context. I have understood ⁂⁂⁂⁂, coming as it does after ⁂⁂⁂, in the sense of ⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘deep darkness.’ 6. The MSS. differ hopelessly on this proper name. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XV. HYMN I(1.). _Adored be Râ, when he riseth up from the eastern horizon of Heaven; they who accompany him extol him._ Here is the Osiris _N_, the Victorious, and he saith:— O thou radiant Orb, who arisest each day from the Horizon, shine thou upon the face of the Osiris _N_ who adoreth thee at dawn, and propitiateth thee at the gloaming. Let the soul of _N_ come forth with thee into heaven, let him journey in the Mââtit boat and finish his course in the Sektit boat(2.) till he reach in heaven unto the Stars which set(3.). He saith, as he invoketh his Lord, the Eternal one:— Hail to thee, Horus of the Two Horizons(4.), who art Chepera Self-originating(5.); Beautiful is thy rising up from the horizon, enlightening the two Earths with thy rays. All the gods are in exultation when they see thee the King of Heaven, with the Nebt Unnut[11] established upon thy head (and the diadem of the South and the diadem of the North upon thy brow) which maketh her abode in front of thee. Thoth abideth at the prow of thy bark that he may destroy all thine adversaries. They who dwell in the Tuat are coming forth to meet thy Majesty, and to gaze upon that beautiful semblance of thine. And I too come to thee that I may be with thee to see thine Orb each day; let me not be detained, let me not be repulsed. Let my limbs be renewed by the contemplation of thy glories, like all thy servants, for I am one of those who honoured thee upon earth. Let me reach the Land of Ages, let me gain the Land of Eternity; for thou, my Lord, hast destined them for me. The Osiris _N_; he saith:— Hail to thee who risest up from the Horizon as Râ in union with Maāt; thou dost traverse heaven in peace and all men see thee as thou goest forward. And after being concealed from them thou presentest thyself at the dawn of each day. Brisk is the bark under thy Majesty. Thy rays are upon men’s faces; the golden glories they cannot be told: not to be described are thy beams. The Lands of the gods, the colours of Punit(6.) are seen in them; that men may form an estimate of that which is hidden from their faces.