335 
67 where thou inscribest the inhabitants, and thou art the guardian of t 
68 those who do 
69 evil 
70 the followers whom my heart hates. 
71 But thou art my abode, the god of my abode ; behold, thou wilt be 
called Thoth, the abode of Ra. I shall give thee to send 
and there arose the ibis of Thoth. I shall 
72 give thee to raise thy hand in the ‘presence of the gods, greater than 
the and there arose the two wings of the ibis of Thoth ; 
I shall give thee to embrace 
73 the two parts of the sky, with thy beauty and with thy rays, and there 
arose the moon-crescent of Thoth. I shall give thee to turn thyself 
towards the Northern nations ; and there arose the cynocephalus of 
Thoth which is 
74 in his escort. Thou art under my dominion. All eyes are open on 
thee, and all men worship thee as a god. 
26. There are besides this text several still more mystical in 
their nature, belonging to the more strictly literal magical 
texts. One of these has also been recently published by 
Dr. Birch,* but, despite the care of the distinguished translator, 
but little information respecting the myth of Ka can be gained 
from it, except that when the sun weeps the first time “ it 
causes strength to be doubled, and flame renewed, it is the 
liquid spirit the sun gives to his son.” f 
“ When the sun weeps a second time and lets water fall from his 
eyes, it is changed into working bees. They work in the flowers of 
each kind, and honey and wax are produced instead of the water. 
When the sun becomes weak he lets fall the perspiration of his 
members, and this changes to a liquid.” 
Here there is an unfortunate hiatus in the MSS., but from 
other passages in the same papyrus we learn that plants and 
fruit are produced from the sweat of the sun. 
“ When the sun is weak he perspires, water falls from his mouth to 
the earth, and changes to the plants of the papyrus. 
* Birch, in Revue Arclieologique — la Papyrus Magique du MusSe 
Rritannique, and in Records of the Past, vol. vi. p. 113. 
t Horus-Ba. 
J Hence, possibly, its sanctity. The plant, never apparently indige- 
