. Or the names which he has created, to which he has given rise, that is the names of all the solar phenomena, recurring as they do, day after day, to the eyes of all beholders, compose “the cycle of the gods,” who are also called the limbs or members of Râ.
The scholia contained in the papyri of the XVIIIth and later dynasties explain the text as follows:—
“It is Râ as he creates the names of his limbs (
) which become the gods who accompany him.”
And the present chapter later on says of Chepera, the rising Sun, that the “cycle of the gods is his body.”
The god who has hitherto been spoken of is Râ. In glaring contradiction to the whole text, a later note states that the resistless god is “the Water, which is Nu”; that is Heaven.[[29]]
