[3.] For the connection between generation and light, see Kuhn, “Herabkunft des Feuers,” p. 70 and ff.
[4.] These barbarous names, as well as those of the following chapters, have not yet been explained. Their interpretation is to be looked for in the African languages, for Chapter 164 connects them with the speech of the negroes, and the Anti of Nubia.
[5.] I have kept for
Renouf’s translation: Heliopolis. But it must not be understood as referring to the well-known city at the head of the Delta.
is here a city in the other world. It is a name belonging to the mythological and not to the terrestrial geography.
[6.] I consider the word