Chapter LXII.

Chapter whereby water is drank in the Netherworld.

Let the Great One be opened to Osiris; let the Kabhu be thrown wide to Thoth, the Coverer, Lord of the Horizon in his name of the Divider of the Earth.

May I have command of the water even as the might of Sutu had over his enemies.

It is I who traverse the Heaven:

I am Râ:

I am the god in Lion form:

I am the Steer;([1])

I eat the haunch, and pierce through the joint.[^[70]]

I go round the Sechit-Aarru.

There hath been assigned to me Eternity, without end.

And lo! I am the Heir of Endless Time, and my attribute is Eternity.

Note.

[1.] The Steer,

smau, a solar title frequent in the Pyramid texts. His mother, Heaven, is called

or (as the name is written Teta 359)

. She is called the Spouse on the Mountain

, and by a play upon words

Unas, 493.

The usual meaning of

, like that of the Greek χλόη or the Hebrew דֶּשֶׁא, is the light green shoot of plants in spring, and this is the key to the sense of the proper name. The goddess Demeter had a temple at Athens under the name of Chloe, and it is in allusion to this that Sophocles calls her εὔχλοος (Oed. Col. 1600).

This Egyptian goddess was

, a principal deity at Enchebit, she had the White Crown and the wig with two plumes. She is described as having drooping dugs, and as suckling her son. Cf. with this information from Unas the whole chapter beginning with line 283 of Pepi I.

[70]. The sacrificial offerings

and