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in this position, without a suffix or nominal subject, is not an auxiliary verb, but a particle of correlation, used when a cause, motive, or circumstance is asserted or implied in connection with a preceding statement.
Like all such particles, of which the function was originally only deictic, it is susceptible of very many shades of meaning, and it would be impossible in this place to do justice to a word so frequently occurring, especially in the hieratic papyri of a secular character. The following examples are only intended to illustrate its grammatical use in our text.
The particle occurs three times before as many propositions at the beginning of Chapter 123; ‘I have balanced the divine Pair,’ ‘I have put a stop, etc.,’ ‘I have ended their complaints;’
connects each of these statements with the preceding one, ‘I am Thoth.’ It is as if the speaker said, ‘It is in consequence of my being Thoth, that I have balanced,’ etc.
In Chapter 36, ‘I am the bearer of the divine words’ is followed by