------------------------------------ CHAPTER LV. _Another chapter whereby air is given._ I am the Jackal of jackals, I am Shu, who convey breezes, in presence of the Glorious one(1.), to the ends of the sky, to the ends of the earth, to the ends of the filaments of Cloud(2.). I give air to those Younglings as I open my mouth and gaze with my two eyes. NOTES. 1. _The Glorious one._ This is the most usual reading. _Pa_ has Râ. 2. _Filaments of Cloud._ _Cloud_ is the sense, not the translation of ⁂⁂⁂, or, as it is also written, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, which is the name of some tree or shrub which has not been identified. The _filaments_ ⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂, which are among its characteristics, point in this context to the long fibrous forms presented by the cirrus cloud. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LVI. _Another chapter of breathing._ Oh Tmu! give me that delicious air which is in thine own nostrils. It is I who hold that great station which is in the heart of Heracleopolis. I watch over that egg of the Great Cackler, my strength is the strength thereof, my life is the life thereof, and my breath is the breath thereof. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LVII. _Chapter for breathing air and command of water in the Nether world._ Let the Great One(1.) be opened to Osiris; let the two folding doors of Kabhu(2.) be thrown wide to Râ. O thou great Coverer(3.) of Heaven, in thy name of Stretcher(4.) [of Heaven], grant that I may have the command of water, even as Sut hath command of force(5.) on the night of the Great Disaster: grant that I may prevail over those who preside at the Inundation, even as that venerable god prevaileth over them, whose name they know not. May I prevail over them. --------------------- My nostril is opened in Tattu, and I go to rest in Heliopolis, my dwelling, which the goddess Seshait(6.) built, and which Chnum raised on its foundation. If the Sky is at the North I sit at the South; if the Sky is at the South I sit at the North; if the Sky is at the West I sit at the East; and if the Sky is at the East I sit at the West. And drawing up my eyebrows(7.) I pierce through into every place that I desire. NOTES. This chapter and the following are recensions and combinations of extremely ancient texts. The first portion of the present chapter follows the ancient text of Horhotep. Even at that early period two recensions were in existence, and are copied one after the other. The translation here given is the nearest possible approach to the original text. The second portion (beginning with _My nostril_) dates from the papyri of the Theban period, though we must depend upon later authorities for the entire Section.