Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

June3] PROCEEDINGS [1890.

hu em C en sex, "strikingwith a hundred blows,"whichoccursin

the third Anastasipapyrus(p. 6, line 13), is a good illustrationof the

etymologyof Sechet.

Sechet,' the striker,' and Neith, ' she who shooteth,'are both

called' Eye of the Sun '; and this is why HathoratDenderais called

among her other names 4* o _<s>. ^ SechetNit, ' Eye of

Ra,'in a well knownpassageto which I lately referred.

On the Metternich stelethe Head of Ra is said to " strike down

bad men " | i=S, >C^|$ Jj 1 '^•^zt* <3§j !.• Thisis evidently a

comparativelymodernimitation of the older phrase, and it is re

markableas being the only knownplacein which the word re\iuis

connectedwith evil. Thereis an ethical conception heremore

akinto that of the invocation —

rjeXiovff, 3s Tram' t(j>opai Kai Train eTraicoveis"fr

than to the purely physical one in such epithets as tKaep-/^,

tKaTT)fio\otappliedto Apollo.

From 8 U& hu, ' strike,' 0 X 00 ahi, ' the striker,' is derived, and

this became the appellative of the youthful Horus

^^ h$kl^"'ur"' s' J?at-f.wri <tnemighty striker, the Son of

Hathor'),and the title of priests and chiefly priestesses( (| 8 00 ^ (J )

of Hathor. Butthe sistrum borne by the god and the priestly
personagesrestrictsthe sense of the word to the beating of musical
instrumentsand to the repulse of invisible enemies.

Anotherdeterminative4T gives to the group [] k (JJ 't- the sense

of beating the ground, tripudiare.

* Taf., II, 1. 15. Cf. M. GolenischcfTs Note,p. 4, n. 8.

t Iliad, III, 277.

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