[15] The Beautiful Rising.
[16] It is not quite certain whether Punt was on the Arabian or Abyssinian shore of the Red Sea, probably the latter.
[17] Tum, symbolised in the setting, Ra, in the risen sun, appear to signify respectively the hidden and the manifested deity—closely corresponding with Osiris—Horus; for there is a unity underlying the apparently endless varieties of Egyptian worships.
[18] Words very suggestive as to the distractions and warfare of the preceding centuries, when the land had indeed seemed to have ‘forgotten the past.’
[19] I am inclined to think that this ‘house’ and its secret passages meant his tomb, whither his son would resort to invoke his father’s memory, who, in the ‘boat of Ra,’ would not forget Usertesen.
[20] Or ‘I hid among the shrubs.’ There is often considerable uncertainty in rendering the phrases of such ancient narratives as the ‘Story of Saneha.’
[21] The unseen or hidden world.
[22] Foreign tribes on north-east frontier. The point is lost for us.
[23] At least he says of himself in his Instructions, ‘I never faltered since the day I was born.’
[24] Egypt is the name given to the country by the Greeks, and is of very uncertain derivation.