It is not quite plain why the name of Scorpion should be given to the bird, but the name

of the insect in itself implies nothing more than the characteristic whiteness of colour.

[2.] Touched with my two hands the Heart of Osiris.

is the origin of the Coptic ϭⲟϩ ‘touch.’ The word Heart has dropped out of the later texts (e.g., the Turin copy), but in the older papyri it is found in the form of