Râ is satisfied; Râ is satisfied; Râ maketh his progress peacefully. Apep falleth; Apep goeth down; the enemy of Râ. And more grave for thee is the proof(3.) than that sweet proof through the Scorpion goddess, which she practised for thee, in the pain which she suffered...(4.). Be thou emasculate, O Apep, enemy of Râ; be thou repulsed whom Râ hateth; look behind thee: a chopper is over thy head to divide it into two parts, and those who are above thy head assail it. Thy bones are broken, thy limbs are severed under the direction of Aker, O Apep, enemy of Râ. Thy boatmen [O Râ], succeed in measuring out thy path, and a journey, with which thou art satisfied; a progress, a progress towards home; and the progress which thou hast made towards home is a fair progress. Let no evil hindrances come forth against me from thy mouth in what thou doest towards me. I am Sutu, who causeth the storms and tempests, and who goeth round in the Horizon of Heaven, like to one whose heart is veiled. Tmu saith: Let your countenances be raised up, ye soldiers of Râ, and drive back Nebtu in presence of the Divine Circle. Seb saith: establish those who are upon their thrones in the middle of the Bark of Chepera; seize your shields and spears, and hold them in your hands. Hathor saith: Seize your daggers. Nut saith: Come and drive back Nebtu, who cometh against him who dwelleth in his shrine, and maketh his voyage in solitary guise: the Inviolate god, the resistless one. O ye gods in your Divine cycles, who travel round the lake of Emerald, come and defend the Great one who is in the shrine from which all the Divine cycle proceedeth. Let glory be ascribed to him, and let honour be given to him. Oh then, proclaim him with me. Nut saith, the mother of the gods: He cometh forth and findeth his path, and maketh captures of the gods; he hath the first place in the two houses of Nut. Seb standeth still, the great cycle of the gods is in terror, Hathor is under terror, and Râ is triumphant over Apep. NOTES. The extreme uncertainty of the text is such that no translation at present can be other than conjectural. 1. _Back, down with thee, Stabber._ The first word is clear enough; not so the two next. Are we to read ⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂? for each of M. Naville’s authorities gives a different word. The last of these readings has some support in a subsequent passage, but almost all copies have ⁂⁂⁂. There has evidently been a confusion between ⁂⁂ and ⁂⁂, and the determinative ⁂ of the latter word has been transferred to the first. I believe that the true word is ⁂⁂⁂ which is used in the ancient forms of conjuration (see the texts of Unas, 304, 311, 542, 545, 554, _etc._). It is always used in expressions of _lying down_ or _falling down_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, and it is also found in parallelism with ⁂⁂⁂.