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Plate I.
Ptah, and he is then described as the creator of gods and men, and the maker of the egg of the sun and of the moon. See
Lanzone, Dizionario, p. 1259; Wiedemann, Religion, p. 74; Pierret, Panthéon, p. 6; and Naville, La Litanie du Soleil, pp.
118, 119, and plate xxiv., 1. 3. This god was, in one aspect, a destroyer of created things; compare ###, Naville, op. cit., p.
89.
6. A name for the boat of the evening sun.
7. See infra, p. 257, note 2.
8 The enemy of Ra was darkness and night, or any cloud which obscured the light of the sun. The darkness personified
was Apep, Nak, etc., and his attendant fiends were the mesu betesh, or 'children of unsuccessful revolt.']
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The House of the Prince[1] keepeth festival, and the sound of those who rejoice is in the (12) mighty
dwelling. The gods are glad [when] they see Ra in his rising; his beams flood the world with light. (13)
The majesty of the god, who is to be feared, setteth forth and cometh unto the land of Manu; he maketh
bright the earth at his birth each day; he cometh unto the place where he was yesterday. (14) O mayest
thou be at peace with me; may I behold thy beauties; may I advance upon the earth; may I smite the Ass;
may I crush (15) the evil one; may I destroy Apep[2] in his hour[3]; may I see the abtu[4] fish at the time
of his creation, and the ant fish in his creation, and the (16) ant[4] boat in its lake. May I see Horus in
charge of the rudder, with Thoth
[1. ###, more fully ### "the great house of the old man," i.e., the great temple of Ra at Heliopolis: see Brugsch, Dict.
Géog., p. 153.
2 Apep, the serpent, personifying darkness, which Horus. or the rising sun must conquer before he can re-appear in the
East.
3 Compare the following scenes which represent Apep in the form of a serpent and crocodile and ass being pierced by the
deceased.
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