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best preserved, of all the funeral excavations in the royal v alley . 
The text of Seti I., therefore, is that which we shall now cite, 
using the translation by M. Edouard Naville, which has just 
appeared in the Records of the Past * and referring occasionally 
to the more elaborate edition of the same work, which stanos as 
a monument of erudition, research, and candid ciiticism.1 
8. The Litany of Ra consists of four chapters the first and 
third being litanies properly so called ; the second and fourth, 
on the contrary, being mystical prayers and invocations, having, 
as will be seen, a strong affinity to certain chapters in the Ritual 
of the Bead. Chapter I., it will be seen, enumerates the 
seventy-nine phases or manifestations of Ra. 
CHAPTER I. 
Title. The beginning of the book of the worship of Ra in the Anient 
of the worship of Tempt f in the Anient. AVhen any one reads this 
book, the porcelain § figures are placed upon the ground, at the hour 
of the setting of the Sun, that is of the triumph of Ra over his 
enemies in the Ament. Whoso is intelligent upon the earth, he is 
intelligent also after his death. 
1 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, the master of the hidden 
spheres who causes the principles to arise, who dwells in darkness, 
who is born || as the all-surrounding universe. 
2 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, the beetle that folds his wings ^ 
that rests in the empyrean, that is born as his own son.'** 
3 Homage to thee, Ra ! Supreme Power, Token ft who produces his 
members, who fashions what is in him, who is born within his 
sphere. 
Beauty, was exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, in 1821. See 
Belzoni, Narrative of Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia, 1822. 
* Vol. viii. 
f Naville, La Litanie du Soleil. 1875. Leipzig. 
f Or the Universal Being. 
§ The Sbabti mummy figures, whose use is described in the Ritual of the 
Dead, cap. vi. 
|| Or, “ under the form of.” 
The sacred Scarabeus. The simile is that of Deity resting after 
creation, as a beetle closes its wings after its eggs are laid. 
** Horus Ra. From a similar idea the early Gnostic Christians 
originated the Patripassian heresy. 
ft The material earth. ft His members, i.e. the gods. 
