1. _In Chemmis._ The name of the place where Isis gave birth to Horus is in the Pyramid texts written ⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Pepi I, 428), and ⁂⁂⁂ (Merenra I, 683), _aḫ-ḫebit_ or _ḫebit-aḫ_; but simply _ḫebit_ in the texts of the eighteenth dynasty, as in the annals of Thothmes III (Mariette, _Karnak_c pl. 16, line 47),[54] or in the divine and proper names ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, and ⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. It is certain therefore that the sign ⁂ is here only an ideogram of ⁂⁂⁂, not of the ancient ⁂⁂⁂. From the eighteenth dynasty at least, and for a time belonging to a period of unknown length between the sixth and the eighteenth dynasties, and for ever afterwards, the name of the place was ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Ḫebit_, where, as the _Tablet of the Dream_ says, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Mariette, _Mon. div._, pl. 7). 2. _In their cells_: ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Here 38A has: ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _in their shrines_, followed in some papyri by ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “I fraternize with Horus and Sut.” 3. _Deprived of breath_, ‘the dead.’ In 38A, the privation of breath is mentioned but in a different connection. But the text of the passage is uncertain. Here as in chapter 41, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘the Breathless one’ is Osiris. 4. _Compressing my mouth_: ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is the ancient reading, not ⁂⁂⁂⁂, as in the more recent texts. The same observation applies to the name of the god in chapter 125, 15. ----- Footnote 52: ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Footnote 53: _The men of the present generation, the Reḫit._ Footnote 54: Here the king is compared to the god called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and in the next line ⁂⁂⁂. And Thothmes IV (_Denkm._, III, 63) is compared ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXXIX. _Chapter whereby the Serpent Rekrek is repulsed in the Netherworld._ Back! down with thee, stabber(1.) from Apepi! Drown in the lake of Heaven, in the spot wherein thy father ordered that thy murder should be carried out. Away from this birth-place of Râ, the god encompassed by[55] his terrors. I am Râ, encompassed by his terrors. Back! the dark demon and the sword which he maketh to flash! Râ flingeth down thy words; thy face is twisted round by the gods; thy whole heart is torn out by the Lynx goddess; chains are flung upon thee by the Scorpion goddess; and slaughter is dealt upon thee by Maāt. The gods who are on the roads overthrow thee. Apep falleth down, the enemy of Râ. O thou who removest the bolt from the East of Heaven at the stormy voice of bellowings, and openest the gates of the Horizon before Râ: he cometh forth fainting from the wounds. I am a doer of thy will, I am a doer of thy will, O Râ. I have done well, I have done well; I have done to the satisfaction of Râ. And I raise shouts of acclamation at thy success at fettering, O Râ. Apep is fallen and is in bonds. The gods of the South, the North, the West and the East bind him; their bonds are upon him. Aker(2.) overthroweth him, and the lord of the ruddy sky doth bind him.