or something equivalent.
The Eater of the Ass is a Serpent, but who is the Ass?
Here, as in each case of mythological name, the animal is not meant, but something which is connoted by it. The name of the ass is given to it in consequence of one of its characteristics. It is
. But this is one of the seventy-five names of the Sun-god in the Solar Litany.[[58]] And he derives this appellation from his fructifying power.
But if the Ass is the Sun, who is the Eater of the Ass? This must be Darkness or Eclipse of some kind.
[1.] Haiu, the serpent who devours the sun, is undoubtedly the same as