I am the Unknown one, but the gods of Ruddy Countenance belong to me. I am the Gladsome one, and no time hath been found, but served to create for me the Heaven and the increase of Earth, and the increase of their offspring. They sever and join not—they sever my name from all evil things, according to the words which I say unto you. It is I who rise up and shine forth; strength proceeding from strength(9.), the One proceeding from the One. There is not a day devoid of that which belongeth to it; for ever and for ever(10.). I am Unbu,[62] who proceedeth from Nu, and my mother is Nut. O thou who hast set me in motion(11.)! for I was motionless, a mighty link within the close of Yesterday; my present activity is a link within the close of my hand. I am not known, but I am one who knoweth thee. I am not to be grasped, but I am one who graspeth thee. [Oh Dweller in the Egg! Oh Dweller in the Egg!] I am Horus, Prince of Eternity, a fire before your faces, which inflameth your hearts towards me. I am master of my throne and I pass onwards. The present time is the path which I have opened, and I have set myself free from all things evil. I am the golden Cynocephalus, three palms in height, without legs or arms in the Temple of Ptah(12.); and my course is the course of the golden Cynocephalus, three palms in height, without legs or arms in the Temple of Ptah. _Let these words be said—Âbabak ṭer-ek_(13.). NOTES. This chapter is in itself most interesting, and it is one of the most important as illustrative of Egyptian mythology. It is impossible at present to explain every detail, but the general drift of the chapter is not to be mistaken. And the same drift is to be recognised in the whole course of Egyptian religious literature from the beginning. The speaker throughout identifies himself with the divinity whose manifestation is the Sun; he is not the Sun of this or that moment but of Yesterday, To-day and of all eternity, the “One proceeding from the One.” 1. _Sutenḥenen._ The later texts say the “Netherworld.” 2. The _Babe_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂, an appellative applied to the rising Sun. _See_ Brugsch, _Rev._ II, pl. 71, 3, where this babe is compared to the Lotus coming forth from the great stream ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The word signifies that which is “lifted up,” “un élève,” ⁂⁂⁂. 3. _Serpent Ab-ur_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The two important MSS. _Ca_ and _Pb_ seem to imply a female personage, but as the verb in connection with the name is masculine the final ⁂ cannot be meant for a feminine ending, and it is peculiar to those two MSS. _Ȧb-ur_ “the very thirsty,” as the appellative of a viper, recalls that of the διψάς, whose bite caused intense thirst. But it may have originated in the fact that these reptiles are in the habit of lying in wait by the water side for the sake of the animals who come there to drink. 4. _To soil_: ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is the type of the word in the earlier texts. The late ones have the well known ⁂⁂⁂⁂.