[99] Inscriptions in the pyramid of Pepi I., l. 664 (circa 3233-3200 B.C.,) in the Recueil de Travaux Relatifs à la Philol., et à l'Arch. Égypt., etc., Vol. VIII., p. 104.
[100] Comp. The Per-em-hru or, Book of the Dead, edition of Ed. Naville, ch. XVII., l. 3, 4. In the passage cited from Pepi, I. 664 et seq., Tumu is also a primordial deity and its female sakti or principle, is Nu or Nut, the sky.
[101] It is from this action that the deity was named Shu from the root, Shu to lift up, to raise. Later, through a pun, he obtained the meaning of Luminous. Comp. also Naville's ed. of the Per-em-hru last cited, l. 4 et seq.
[102] G. Maspero in the Revue de l'Hist. des Religions. Le Livre des Morts, Vol. XV., pp. 269, 270.
[103] Hermès Trismégistos, second ed., by Louis Ménard. Paris, 1867. pp. 27, 28. Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander; ad fidem codicum manu scriptorum recognovit, by Gustavus Parthey. Berolini, 1854, p. 31. The word "sand" is used to symbolize the positive or atomic dryness, and "damp sand," the atomic humidity, or the negative.
[104] Book of the Dead, ch. XVII., l. 1-4; XV., l. 28, 29, 43, 47; LXXIX., l. 1, 2; LXXVIII., l. 12. Hymne à Ammon-Ra, by Eugène Grébaut. Paris, 1874, pp. 11, 28, 112, 115, 120-122, 295.
[105] Paul Pierret, Études Égyptol., I., 81.
[106] F. Chabas, l'Égyptologie. Paris, 1878, Vol. II., p. 103.
[107] Comp. Trans. Soc. Biblical Literature, Vol. VI., pp. 494-508.
[108] Comp. Religion of Ancient Egypt by P. Le Page Renouf, p. 153 et seq.