[12.] Eater of the Shadow. The Demotic version interprets this of “his own shadow.” I am rather inclined to interpret it by “the gnomons which were without shadows at noon,” and the “well of Syene” (Strabo, 817) at the Summer Solstice; when the Sun was vertical.
[13.] Thou of Lion form,
. The Demotic has “Shu and Tefnut.” But as there are only forty-two gods in all, we must here think of a single god with a lion’s head, as in such pictures as Wilkinson, III, Pl. XLIX; Denkm., III, 276, and many sarcophagi (e.g., Leemans, Mon., III, L, Pl. III).
Even some of the Theban papyri have two divinities by way of determinatives to the group.
[14.] Sluggish,
