CHAPTER CXXXII.

_Chapter whereby a person is enabled to go round, to visit his dwelling
in the Netherworld._


I am the Lion-god who issueth from the Bow,(1.) and therefore have I
shot forth.(2.)

I am the Eye of Horus; and the Eye of Horus is opened at the instant
that I reach the strand, coming with happy issue.

I advance and, lo! there is no defect found in me, and the Balance is
relieved of my case.(3.)

NOTES.

1. _The Bow_, ⁂, often written with the determinative ⁂, of
_stretching_, which is the conception implied in this name of the
instrument. This mythological _Bow_, as I explained, _Proc. Soc. Bibl.
Arch._, VI, 131, is the moon’s _crescent_, which during its course
through the sky is always turned towards the sun; so that a line at
right angles to the chord of the arc passes through the sun’s centre.
From this “very delicate observation,” as Arago calls it, the
Alexandrian astronomer Geminus infers that the moon derives its light
from the sun. The observation evidently had been made in Egypt some
thousands of years before Geminus, and explains why in several chapters
the sun is spoken of as shining in or from the moon.

See also _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, XVII, 37, on another form of the
myth.

2. I follow the Turin text in omitting a word about which the earlier
texts are not agreed, but which seems to have originated in an alternate
reading for ⁂.

3. See end of Chapter 1 and note. These words are omitted in Turin text.

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