Apepi, an evil power which must be driven away. Chapter 130, line 39, I should translate: ‘Osiris follows the path of Rā in the morning, and drives away the curling god.’
[8.] ‘The steel firmament,’
, generally mentioned in connection with storms and bad weather, so that possibly we have to consider here the colour of the metal, and translate ‘the dark sky,[sky,] the black sky.’
[9.] The books of Thoth, the divine writer.