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.

And lo! I am the Heir of Endless Time, and my attribute is Eternity.

NOTE.

1. _The Steer_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _smau_, a solar title frequent in the

Pyramid texts. His mother, Heaven, is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ or

(as the name is written Teta 359) ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. She is called

the Spouse on the Mountain ⁂⁂⁂, and by a play upon words

⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ Unas, 493.

The usual meaning of ⁂⁂⁂, like that of the Greek χλόη or the

Hebrew דֶּשֶׁא, is the light green shoot of plants in spring, and this is

the key to the sense of the proper name. The goddess Demeter had a

temple at Athens under the name of _Chloe_, and it is in allusion to

this that Sophocles calls her εὔχλοος (_Oed. Col._ 1600).

This Egyptian goddess was ⁂⁂⁂⁂, a principal deity at

Enchebit, she had the White Crown and the wig with two plumes. She is

described as having drooping dugs, and as suckling her son. _Cf._ with

this information from Unas the whole chapter beginning with line 283 of

Pepi I.

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Footnote 70:

The sacrificial offerings ⁂ and ⁂.

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