1. _The Great One_ ⁂⁂ _urit_—Heaven. 2. _Kabhu_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, literally the _Cool_ (water) is another name for the Sky,[66] and is here in parallelism with the Great One. 3. _Coverer_ ⁂⁂⁂, a name applied both to the Nile, as covering the land during the inundation, and to the Sky as the covering above us. _Cf._ my paper on _Nile Mythology_, P.S.B.A., November, 1890. 4. _Stretcher_ ⁂⁂⁂, which I consider as a nasalised (perhaps the original) form of ⁂⁂ _stretch_. The papyri read ⁂⁂⁂ _āt pet_ ‘Cleaver of the Sky,’ but the word _āt_, without the determinative ⁂, may also mean _stretch_, as in the expression ⁂⁂⁂. 5. _Force_ ⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂, like the Latin _vis_, may, but need not, be of a criminal nature. The name of the goddess ⁂⁂⁂ in this place is a manifest blunder of the more recent scribes. 6. The goddess _Seshait_ ⁂⁂ commonly but erroneously called _Safch_, through an error against which Lepsius (_Aelt. Texte_, p. 3) and Brugsch (_Zeitschr._, 1872, p. 9) have both spoken. The real name of the goddess, as I have elsewhere[67] shown by actual variants, is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Seshait_ (Teta, l. 268) or ⁂⁂⁂ (Louvre, A. 97). She is so called from the root ⁂, ⁂⁂, _writing_, that being one of her occupations. 7. _Drawing up my eyebrows_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, in scornful pride, superciliously, like the Greek τὰς ὀφρῦς ἀνασπᾶν. ----- Footnote 66: The name occurs repeatedly in the Pyramid Texts, and even the very expression ⁂⁂⁂ _e.g._ Unas, 375, and the Litany at Pepi I, 631. Footnote 67: _On some Religious Texts of the Early Egyptian Period_ in _Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, Vol. IX, p. 303. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LVIII. _Chapter for breathing air and command of water._ Let the door be opened to me! Who art thou? What is thy name? I am One of You! Who is with thee? It is the Merta. Turn away then(1.) front to front, on entering the Meskat.(2.) He grants that I may sail to the Abode of those who have found their faces. _Collector of Souls_ is the name of my Bark, _Bristler of Hair_ is the name of the Oars, _Point_[68] is the name of its Hatch, _Right and Straight_ the name of the Rudder. The picture of it is the representation of my glorious journey upon the Canal. Give me jars of milk and cakes and flesh meat at the House of Anubis. _If this chapter is known he entereth after having gone out._ NOTES. The 58th and 122nd chapters are reproductions of the same text, the earliest copy known being that of Ani. 1. _Turn away then._ Merta as we have seen is the name given to the goddess pair Isis and Nephthys. It is therefore not possible to account for the masculine pronoun ⁂ as having reference to Merta. ⁂ must be taken in the sense of _ideo_, _idcirco_, _then_, _therefore_. 2. _Meskat_, or according to another reading _Meschenit_. ----- Footnote 68: All this part is corrupt. ------------------------------------