, ‘the Divine Circle about Osiris.’

The ‘Staircase of the great god’

at Abydos, is frequently mentioned on the funeral stelae.

[3.] The Tank of Flame. See chapter 1, [note 15]. The red glow of the Sky disappears after the Sun has risen, he is therefore said to “extinguish the Flame” after he has come forth. The same notion is expressed in the myth according to which Horus strikes off the head of his mother.


CHAPTER XXIII.