[1.] There is here a play on the words pa, ḫeper, ruṭ and šet. The Turning One is the god Chepera. The Tortoise
derives its name (the hider), from the habit of drawing its body within its shell. On the flight of the Bennu see the first note of next chapter.
[2.] The Nile lies between the opposite shores of the Nomes of Letopolis (Sechem) and Heliopolis (Annu).
[3.] The later recensions have “I am Chonsu who putteth a stop to all boastfulness.” But in the early copies Chonsu is taken in its primitive sense the chaser and does not require the verb
to govern ‘boastfulness.’