Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

Nov. 7] PROCEEDINGS. [1893.

pacifiedHomswithhis Eye." Thedifferentsynonymsdesignating

the Eye are important as showing thatthe word ^\ I \S. is? is

hereusedin the sense of the daily lightof the sun.

Theotherpartof the same text as Edfu givesadditionalvariants.

©I I d C i l m«m H V. « S"\W JJ vw —«. 9 I

Eyeis called •¥. ° , 'Tr -^- , and °. But in other
placesthe W«( standsfor a less frequent moment of the solar pro
gress. In the Pyramid Textsfor instance © O v^ I ml
"° ,—A.MDC I JS^tJi^
" holder of the Southern Eyeof Horus" mightperhapsdesignatethe
Summer Solstice. And a later text connects the Eye with the
openingof the year.

Thepriestly title (sb,j, 'holder of the Eye,' is like all such

titles,thatof the divinity whomthe priest personates. The god

himselfis hieroglyphically represented by the sign tPWJ of an ape

holdingthe Eye.

"• The I"™'*' &«> ffi- &J*S Teta, ^ 5

-£. "^ ;*tk J^TT I SftJ Horhotep, 213. See my note Proc.

JSoc.Bibl.Arch.,1873,p. 385.

TheCoptici.Kopi,whichis generally supposedto be a serpent,

is more probablyan earth-worm, like Sa*

ThePyramidTexts haveanotherwordwhich I understand of

the tunnels through whichthe Sun, Moon, andStars passfrom

Westto East, D ^°^ ts=*y , as opposed to Jp j ^y, the paths

of the upper world. Anubisis called J J^ v*=&i(PepiI,

So),and these passagesare (j -jj- Q %3 R © f\ % ^ (#.,73).

" between the two divine forms" (a lion at each end). Cf. Teta, 319,

whereit is said of the Stars Jfc/fcD ^ «|'^^|>

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