5. The Heron is the bird called ⁂⁂⁂ _bennu_, the numerous pictures of which enable us to identify it with the Common Heron or Heronshaw. The reason for connecting this bird with the Sun-god has to be sought in the etymology of its name. ⁂⁂ _ben_ is a verb of motion, and particularly of ‘going round.’ ⁂⁂ _benenu_ is a ring, also a ‘round pill.’ The Sun therefore is very naturally called _bennu_, an appellative like κυκλοέλικτος in the Orphic hymns. ⁂⁂, ‘of that which is, and of that which cometh into being.’ Here, as in many other places, ⁂, which is a verb of motion, and really signifies ‘rise up, spring forth,’ is pointedly distinguished from ⁂, that which (is). So far from signifying ‘being, that which is,’ it very much more nearly corresponds to ⁂ in the frequent expression ⁂⁂, ‘that which is and that which is not yet.’ The sense of ‘good being’ so commonly given to the divine name Unnefer is utterly erroneous. 6. The reading of the name ⁂ is proved by the numerous variants of this passage to be _Ȧmsu_. In M. Naville’s edition, II, pl. 41, the name, as written in _Ce_, would seem to be ⁂⁂⁂ _ȧm._ But I already in _Zeitschr._, 1877 (p. 98) pointed out, that in this manuscript the last sign ⁂ is at the top of a column, and that at the foot of the preceding column there is a space where the signs ⁂, following ⁂⁂ (_as they still do in the next passage_), have been obliterated. No one from merely looking at M. Naville’s copy would guess that there was any interval between ⁂ and ⁂. The god’s name is written ⁂⁂⁂ on a tablet, Denkm. III, 114 i. And the name is also written ⁂ or ⁂, which are ligatures of ⁂ and ⁂. 7. Note that in this scholion Horus, ‘the avenger of his father,’ calls his father not Osiris but Tmu. In the more recent texts there are many interpretations of the two Feathers. One is “his two _Eyes_F are the Feathers.” But the favourite one is “Isis and Nephthys, who have risen up as two kites” ⁂⁂⁂⁂. 8. The ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _reḫit_, by whom the oblation is made, the _present_ generation as contrasted with the ⁂⁂⁂ _pāit_, the _past_, and ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _hammemit_, the _coming_ generations. 9. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Māāāait_ is supposed to be nitre or salt, or some other substance used in the process of embalming. The more recent recensions thus answer the question about the lakes. “_Eternity_ is the name of one, and the _Great green one_ that of the other, the lake of Natron and the lake of Māāt.” 10. See the picture of this gate on the Vignette, which shows the Sun-god passing through. One of the later explanations is that from this gate Shu raised up Heaven. Another is that it was the gate of the Tuat. _Haukar_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, means “behind the Shrine.”