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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

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Hair of Bata's wife, 202

Hait, 185

Hall of Keb, 60, 248

—of Judgment, 50, 247

—of Maāti, 51, 53

—of Shu, 60

—of Truth, 55, 60, 248

—of Tuat, 42

Hammāmāt, 113

Hap-Asar, 149

Happiness, 232

Harmakhis, 46, 248

Harper, Song of, 242

Harris Papyrus, No. 1, 110

—No. 500, 241, 242, 254

Hasau, 112

Hathaba, 194

Hathor, 21, 72, 73, 114, 134, 164, 165, 248, 253

—month of, 253

—Sekhmet, 72

Hathors, the Seven, 202

Hatshepset, 145

Haughtiness, 226

Haunebu, 102

Hawk, golden; 43

—divine, 43

—the Great, 91

Hawks, 20

Head, lifting up of, 44

Headsman of Osiris, 43

Heart, 50

—amulet of the, 42

—of Bata, 201

—of bull, 15

—Chapters of, 42

—of a man, 230

—restoration of, 44

Heart-scarabs, 51

Heat in body, 44

Heaven, solar, 39

Heavens, the Two, 23

Heben, 79

Hebit, 248

Hebrews, 241

Heh, 101

Height, 19

Heliopolis, 15, 24, 32, 36, 39, 43, 46, 48, 52, 61, 70, 72, 123, 220, 222, 235, 245, 248

Heliopolitans, 67

Hememet, 219

Hensu, 47, 53, 73, 117, 121, 170, 171, 175

Henu Boat, 46

Hep, 85, 86, 176

Heqet, 33, 34

Herakleopolis, 47, 73, 81, 117, 121, 170, 171, 175

Herānkh, 149, 150, 151

Herfhaf, 54

Her-Heru, 186, 190, 193

Herit, 156

Herkemmaāt, 56

Herkhuf, autobiography of, 131 ff.

Hermonthis, 123

Hermopolis, 39, 43, 50, 53, 60, 84, 117, 119

—Parva, 85

Hermopolitans, 67

Heron, 43

Hert, 19

Herua, 207

Heru-Behutet, Legend of, 78 ff.

Heru-uatu, 166

Heruemheb, 254

Heru-Hekenu, 77

Herukhentisemti, 114

Heru-Khuti, 45, 46, 111, 220

Herushefit, 178

Herutataf, 29, 30, 31, 33, 50, 242

Heru-ur, 164

Het Benben, 123

—Benu, 117-19

Hetkaptah, 45, 112, 149, 220

Het-neter-Sebek, 117

Het Nub, 130, 131, 146

Hetra, 247

Het Sekhmet, 34

—Suten, 117

Het Uārt, 140

Hieratic writing, 1

Hieroglyphic writing, 1

Hieroglyphs, 220

Hippopotami, 78

Holy Land, 45

—of Holies, 146

Honey, 159

Horizon, 30

Horus, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 33, 44, 48, 53, 56, 65, 69, 77, 80, 85, 88, 91, 110, 111, 137, 149, 151, 162, 164, 165, 218, 220, 254,

—birth of, 90

—children of, 221

—of Behutet, Legend of, 77 ff.

—of the East, 164, 218

—stung and restored to life, 90, 92

Horus-Set, 14

Horus the Slayer, 104

House, building of, 43

—of Amen, 113

—of Benben, 216

—of Books, 98

—of Fire, 215

—of Ka of Seker, 149

—of Life, 84

—of Seneferu, 100

—of Shent, 154

Humility, 227

Hunefer, Papyrus of, 45

Hyksos, 254

Hymn, funerary, 47

—in praise of learning, 250

—to Nut, 18

—to Rā, 18

Hymns to gods, 12, 214-21

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