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The Egyptian Book of the dead

Note 1 — Chapter CXIV

P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation

Maāt is borne. is the same word as , the reduplicated form of to gush, spring forth. But in certain cases it acquires the sense of being borne, or conveyed, and is written in Ptolemaic inscriptions. The corresponding word in chapter 116 is , which has the same meanings. One of the pictures above alluded to (Lefébure, Hypogées, Tombeau de Seti, part IV, pl. 31) represents a boat carrying the Moon-disk, raised upon a stand.

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