CHAPTER I.
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5. Sharpe, E.I., pl. 97.
The papyrus Da which is of the same period reads in the title of Chapter 17, instead of ‘glory,’ ‘éclat.’ The correspond by their name very closely with the devas of Indian mythology, and the dead are called on the pious hypothesis of their having obtained ‘glory.’ The word has nothing to do with ‘intelligence.’ It is particularly applicable to the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars—‘the glittering ones,’ and the horizon at sunrise ḫut, and ‘fire’ derive their names from their éclat.
6. See Denkm. II, 71 b, 72 a, b, 101 b; cf. 98 h, 116 c, and III, 260 c.
7. The evidence produced by W. Max Müller in behalf of this reading of the priestly name is quite convincing.
8. The human head (with a beard) sometimes given to the bird, merely indicates the aivine nature of the soul.
9. This is one of the meanings of , but in this place it may simply mean ‘going round in a ship.’