CHAPTER CXIII.
Chapter whereby one knoweth the Powers of Nechen.([1])
I know the Mystery of Nechen: Horus, and that which his mother did([2]) for him, when she herself uttered the cry: “Let Sebak, the Lord of the Marshes, be brought to us.”
He cast the net for them and he found them, and his mother made them fast in their places.
Sebak, the Lord of the Marshes, said: “I sought and I found the traces of them under my fingers on the strand. I netted them in a powerful net, as the net proved to be.”
And Râ said: “Verily, those are fishes in the hands of Sebak. and he hath found the two arms of Horus for him, which had become fishes.”([3])
And Râ said: “A mystery, a mystery, in the Net.”
And the hands of Horus were brought to him, and displayed before his face, on the feast of the fifteenth day of the month; when the fishes were produced.
Then Râ said: “I grant Nechen to Horus, in the place of his two arms; that his two hands be displayed before his face in Nechen; and I grant to him whatsoever is therein comprised on the feast of the fifteenth day of the month.”