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alike in the school playground, the historian's study, or the 
devotee’s cell, and no story which is open to a more serious 
censure or ridicule than the apparently trivial incident of Pthan 
Nefuka playing at draughts in Hades, which has furnished the 
onlv example yet known of an Egyptian caricature.* * * § 
18. This is, ‘however, somewhat of a digression, for the subject 
of the Myth of Ra is by no means exhausted yet ; but the remarks 
already made will with equal force apply to our further examina- 
tion of the sacred texts. Hitherto we have cited only adorations, 
or proscyneme, addressed directly to Ra himself, and in the first 
person ; we shall now proceed to quote certain hymns less 
immediately applied to Ra, but yet at the same time equally 
adoring him under his personified attribute of Ra Harmachis, 
or Ra on the Horizon, — a title which was also given to Horus, 
who was considered both the son of Ra and also as Ra himself. 
The text in question was first published by Lepsius,+ and a 
French translation of it was given last year by Professor 
Maspero,J and an English version lias just been published by 
Professor Lushington in the Records of the Past.§ The chief 
point of interest to us is the complete identification of Amen 
with Ra, and the antithetical contrasts between the condition 
of Ra victorious and his foes Apophis and his conquered 
coadjutors. 
1 Adoration to Ea-Harhachis at the front of the morning. || 
2 Say : Thou wakest beauteous Amen-Ea-Haemachis, thou watchest 
in triumph, Amen-Ea, Lord of the horizon. 
3 O blessed one beaming in splendour (?) towed by thy mariners who 
are of the unresting gods, sped by thy mariners of the unmovmg 
gods. 
4 Thou comest forth, thou ascendest, thou towerest in beauty, thy barge 
divine careers wherein thou speedest, blest by thy mother Nut each 
day, heaven embraces thee, thy foes fall as thou turnest thy face to 
the West of heaven. 
5 Counted are thy bones, collected thy limbs, living thy flesh, thy 
members blossom, thy soul blossoms, glorified is thy august form, 
advanced thy state on the road to darkness. 
* See Sharpe, Egyptian Monuments in the British Museum, page 151. 
fi Denhndler, Abth. vi., Bd. 12. 
J Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de V Orient, cap. i. p. 32. 
§ Vol. viii. 
jj “At the front of the morning.” Some prefer rendering the words 
“ every morning.” 
