Part 3 — CHAPTER CXXXVIA.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Chapter whereby one is conveyed in the Bark of Rā.
He is born, he of the strong cord,(3) his cable(4) is at an end, and his rudder(5) hath been taken in hand.
I poise the divine machinery(6) by which I raise up the Bark to the cord above head, by means of which I come forth into Heaven, and am conveyed to Nut.
I am conveyed by it along with Rā. I am conveyed by it like the Kaf.(7)
I stop the path at the Uārit of Nut, at the staircase where Seb and Nut bewail their hearts.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Light . A common noun signifying lamp, but the determinative here shows that a heavenly body is meant. The sun is here spoken of exactly in Note 2 · The later recension speaks of “the Lamp in Annu and the Hammemit in Cherāba.”Cherāba.” This reading is already found in a few of the Theban Note 3 · He of the strong cord, . This is grammatically the subject of the verb is born, and I consider it as a compound expression in which the adjeNote 4 · His cable, . See Bonomi, Sarc. 8 D. and cf. a passage in the Pyramid Texts (Pepi I, 413, Merenrā 590) which refers to this or a similar voyaNote 5 · Rudder or . ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 6 · Machinery . The word has disappeared from the later texts and been replaced by various conjectural emendations of the scribes. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 7 · The Kaf, , one of the divinities in form of apes. Etymologically the word signifies “the hot one.” ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂