17. It is most probable that the Cat became the representative of the Sun because of the homonymy between the Egyptian name ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _mȧȧu_ of the animal and the attributive ⁂⁂⁂ _mau_, ‘shining’ said of the Sun. But the Egyptian scribe gives a different etymological explanation. Sau said of Râ “he is ⁂⁂ _maȧu_ of what he hath made.” ⁂⁂ may, like the Latin _exemplar_, be either the type or the prototype, the copy or the original. The creatures of Râ were made after his likeness. Sanskrit literature, from the Çatapatha Brahmana down to the Vishnu Purâna, is full of similar etymologies. The Egyptians from the very first delighted in this play upon words. 18. Neḥebu-kau, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is the son of Seb and Renenut. The etymology of the name is indicated in the Pyramid texts. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _neḥbu_ is to ‘carry, sustain, support’ (whence ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _neḥbet_ a neck, and ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _neḥb_ a yoke), and the rest of the word is the plural of _ka_, which is susceptible of more than one meaning. It might signify the divine or human _ka_, but the word is sometimes (_e.g._, Todt., 125, 32) written ⁂ ‘victuals.’ The god is one of the forty-two judges of the dead, and in some copies of the Book of the Dead he is described as coming forth from his ⁂⁂⁂, a word most frequently used for the source of the Nile. The serpent ⁂ which is a most frequent determinative of the name, is an additional reason for identifying this god with the Nile: a conclusion which seems fully justified by the Pyramid texts, which speak of him as Water ⁂, and describe him as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “of many windings.” (See Pepi I, 341 and 487.) 19. This Devourer has the same functions as the strange animal called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Âmemit_ in the pictures of the Psychostasia. The later scholia add that the Devourer comes from the ‘basin of Punit,’ the Red sea. They add other names, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Mâtes_ ‘Flint,’ “stationed at the gate of Amenta,” and ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂ _Baba_, who, in ch. 63, 2, is described as the first born of Osiris. He is a terrible god from whom the deceased prays in ch. 125, 36, to be delivered. His name implies ‘one who searches or probes thoroughly,’ as a digger or miner. And such are his functions at the judgment of the dead. Instead of ⁂⁂ _tesem_, a ‘hound,’ _La_ reads ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _sȧu_, a sheep.