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ing, “ Come, run towards the Lake of Horns, behold the god in 
his boat, see the son of Isis in his boat, showing himself like Ra 
in the bark Sekti, with his arrow in his hand/’* The people of 
Egypt tender him their praises and offer him their homage. 
Osiris glorifies his son. Isis bestows her love upon him, and 
the whole multitude of the ransomed Egyptians break forth into 
singing, and then in the two hymns which follow are celebrated, 
in the first the might of Horus, and in the second the beauty 
of his vestments and the terror of his spear. 
“ Let us rejoice, daughters of the great town of Tep, who are 
dwelling-)- toward (.,... J). 
Come, behold Horus on the right of his bark 
Shining like the sun who lightenest on the horizon. 
He is ornamented with a green dress, § 
He is girded with precious stuffs, 
He is decorated with linen, 
The two crowns are upon his head, || 
And the two unci are about his temples. 
He has received the sceptre, 
And the skin lie shines over the Pschent. 
Sekhet is upon his head, 
Thoth protects him, 
Pthah speaks for him. 
Thy lance has pierced thine [enemies]. 
Sokaris says to him, Thy arm has struck the [adversaries]. 
Hathotep,** of Senefer,tt says to him, When . . . thy arrow is 
in part of Keb, 
Thv lance in the country of the figs.J]; 
I have thrown [my arrow] to the right, 
I have thrown [it also] to the left, like a valiant hunter.” 
Thus did the Egyptian women, like Miriam and her com- 
panions, rejoice with timbrel and music. §§ But it does not 
suffice that Horus shall slay Typhon and cast his followers into 
Hell ; following the primitive code of Lex talionis, as he had done 
to Osiris, so shall the son of Osiris do to him. The body of 
the dead adversary must itself be dismembered, aud sent to all 
the principal towns of Egypt: fiat justitia ; and therefore 
* Naville, Textes relatifs au Mythe d* Horus, pi. iv. + Ibid., pi. viii. 
1 Lacuna. § Emblematic of the Resurrection. 
|| Of Upper and Lower Egypt ; also symbolical of power over both the 
Heavens and Hades. IT The two crowns united. 
■" * Hathotep, peace of Hat, i.e, Hathor. 
+t Sen-nefer, making good, common Egyptian surnames. 
J ! This was a common name of the land of Egypt. 
The women are represented with sistmms and timbrels in the illustra- 
tions to this hymn. 
