, Shu, who is of course the son of Râ, is in consequence of this act called
Ȧn-ḥeru, ‘The Lifter up of the Heaven.’
Chemennu is the geographical name of the town called by the Greeks Hermopolis. The mystical Chemennu, however, is alone referred to in this place. The word itself means Eight, and Lepsius sees here a reference to eight elementary deities. (We must remember that the passage itself is an interpolation, of which there is no trace in the older texts.)
The ‘children of Failure’ (
