CHAPTER LIX. _Chapter for breathing air and command of water._ Oh thou Sycomore of Nut, give me of the water and of the wind which are within thee. It is I who hold that abode which is in Heracleopolis, I watch over that Egg of the Great Cackler. My strength is the strength thereof, my life the life thereof, and my breath the breath thereof. NOTES. On the mythological tree in heaven which produces both wind and water, that is the rain-cloud, see my _Egyptian Mythology, particularly with reference to Mist and Cloud_, in _Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, Vol. VIII. The same kind of imagery is still current in Europe. German authorities tell us about the ‘Wetterbaum,’ which in some places is called ‘Abraham’s Tree,’ in others, ‘Adam’s Tree.’ The Yggdrasill myth is supposed to have the same origin. The Rainbow is the heavenly Mountain Ash of a well known Swedish and Esthonian riddle. The water from heaven was supposed in Egypt to be especially refreshing for the dead. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LX. _Another Chapter._ Let the doors of Heaven be open to me, let the doors of Kabhu be thrown wide to me; by Thoth and by Hapi, the great Coverer of Heaven, at daybreak. Grant ye that I may have the command of water even as the mighty Sut had the command of his enemies on the Day of Disaster to the Earth. May I prevail over the Long-armed ones in their corners,[69] even as that glorious and ready god prevaileth over them, whose name they know not. May I prevail over the Long-armed ones. ----- Footnote 69: The four cardinal points; the Eastern and the Western ⁂⁂, and the Southern and the Northern ⁂⁂⁂. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXI. _Another Chapter._ I, even I, am he who proceedeth from the Weeper(1.), and whose attribute is Overflowing.(2.) I(3.) have the command of it as Hâpu. NOTES. 1. The great Weeper is primarily Heaven, and it is so in this place. The Nile god who proceeds from it also bears the same name. 2. _Overflowing_: ⁂⁂⁂⁂. 3. _I._ The original is in the third person; in reference to “he who proceedeth,” &c. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXII. _Chapter whereby water is drank in the Netherworld._ Let the Great One be opened to Osiris; let the Kabhu be thrown wide to Thoth, the Coverer, Lord of the Horizon in his name of the Divider of the Earth. May I have command of the water even as the might of Sutu had over his enemies. It is I who traverse the Heaven: I am Râ: I am the god in Lion form: I am the Steer;(1.) I eat the haunch, and pierce through the joint.[70] I go round the Sechit-Aarru. There hath been assigned to me Eternity, without end.