, against both of whom a passage of the ‘Book of Hades’ (Bonomi, Sarc., pl. II A) has been quoted. The book, of course, is of inferior authority to the ‘Book of the Dead,’ but in any case it must be remembered that these names, as appellatives, are common nouns (Uammeta is in the plural number in the passage in question), and may simply mean Serpents. Sutu is called by the first of these names at Edfu (Zeitschr., 1871, p. 108). But even at Dendera (Lanzone, Diz., pl. 173, 1) this ‘god of serpent face’ is ‘disastrous to the Sebau,’ the enemies of Osiris and Rā, and is therefore not one of them. His soul is invoked like those of all the great gods in the royal tombs.
[114]. The
is not to be read fi or fy. The sign
is merely the ideogram of the number 2, like the letter ⲃ in Coptic. The belief in an Egyptian dual with