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and anxious to win souls to Christ, and feeling sure that there were even 
beneath the stern enduring granite walls of Egyptian mythology a still more 
permanent golden substratum of primitive patriarchal faith, they endeavoured 
by those very analogies to draw the subtly-educated minds of an Eastern people 
to the simplicity of the truth as it is in Jesus, and used as the strongest argu- 
ment in favour of the fundamental truths of a re-revealed Christianity, the 
dogma and the language of the Myth of Horus. 
People present him with their gifts, 
10 through his own hands.”* * * * * 
(By him) is assuaged the goddess Oer| in her fury, 
Uplifted is the sky which he maintains with bis two arras ; 
Every god 
11 yields to his face, 
The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Shu-si-ea,J 
Life, health and strength, 
The god who was in the first time.§ 
The Litany of Shu. 
Thou fillest at daybreak the place of his sacred eye || in On 
to overthrow, 
page 2. 
in order 
1 the wicked far from thy father. 
Thou allowest the divine boat to proceed in peace ; 
his tow-men are in jov, all the gods in exultation and jubilation, 
2 When they hear thy name. 
Thou art the most mysterious, the greatest of gods. 
In that name which is thine of Siiu-si-Ba. 
Stop, thou, Maku,** * * §§ son of Set ! 
3 I am An-her, Lord of the Scimitar.ff 
Another Section. 
Thou art greater and more ancient than the gods, 
in that name which is thine of goddess Aa-oer. XX §§ 
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* The cultus of the mortals reaches Ra, or god, through the intermediation 
of Shu the son of Ra. 
f The “ goddess Oer-t,” or the “great goddess,” a name of the lion-headed 
Sekhet, the chastiser of the wicked. 
J Shu-si-Ra is the royal name of Shu son of Ra, one of the dynastic 
gods. § i-e. from all eternity. 
|| The sacred eye of the sun, the solar disk. 
^ Heliopolis. 
** Mako (variant Makai), a mythological crocodile, a form of Set. 
ff An-her (the leader of the sky) is the same as Shu. 
5 + The very great. 
§§ Here the divine son Shu assumes the character of a goddess. 
|||| This magical text will appear in the next volume (X.) of the Records of 
the Past. 
