I am not to be grasped, but I am one who graspeth thee.
[Oh Dweller in the Egg! Oh Dweller in the Egg!]
I am Horus, Prince of Eternity, a fire before your faces, which inflameth your hearts towards me.
I am master of my throne and I pass onwards. The present time is the path which I have opened, and I have set myself free from all things evil.
I am the golden Cynocephalus, three palms in height, without legs or arms in the Temple of Ptah([12]); and my course is the course of the golden Cynocephalus, three palms in height, without legs or arms in the Temple of Ptah.
Let these words be said—Âbabak ṭer-ek([13]).
Notes.
This chapter is in itself most interesting, and it is one of the most important as illustrative of Egyptian mythology. It is impossible at present to explain every detail, but the general drift of the chapter is not to be mistaken. And the same drift is to be recognised in the whole course of Egyptian religious literature from the beginning.
The speaker throughout identifies himself with the divinity whose manifestation is the Sun; he is not the Sun of this or that moment but of Yesterday, To-day and of all eternity, the “One proceeding from the One.”
[1.] Sutenḥenen. The later texts say the “Netherworld.”