urning in his blood, and the heat thereof
was stronger than that of a fierce fire. At length he said, "Isis shall
search me through, and my name shall come forth from my body and pass
into hers." Then Ra hid himself from the gods, and for a season his
throne in the Boat of Millions of Years was empty. When the time came
for the heart of the god to pass into Isis, the goddess said to Horus,
her son, "The great god shall bind himself by an oath to give us his two
eyes (_i.e._ the sun and the moon)." When the great god had yielded up
his name Isis pronounced the following spell: "Flow poison, come out of
Ra. Eye of Horus, come out of the god, and sparkle as thou comest
through his mouth. I am the worker. I make the poison to fall on the
ground. The poison is conquered. Truly the name of the great god hath
been taken from him. Ra liveth! The poison dieth! If the poison live Ra
shall die." These were the words which Isis spoke, Isis the great lady,
the Queen of the gods, who knew Ra by his own name.

[Footnote 1: An ancient Cow-goddess of heaven.]

[Footnote 2: A form of Amen-Ra.]

In late times magicians used to write the above Legend on papyrus above
figures of Temu and Heru-Hekenu, who gave Ra his secret name, and over
figures of Isis and Horus, and sell the rolls as charms against snake
bites.

THE LEGEND OF HORUS OF BEHUTET AND THE WINGED DISK

The text of this Legend is cut in hieroglyphs on the walls of the temple
of Edfu, in Upper Egypt, and some of the incidents described in it are
illustrated by large bas-reliefs. The form of the Legend here given
dates from the Ptolemaic Period, but the subject matter is some
thousands of years older. The great historical fact underlying the
Legend is the Conquest of Egypt by some very early king who invaded
Egypt from the south, and who succeeded in conquering every part of it,
even the northern part of the Delta. The events described are supposed
to have taken place whilst Ra was still reigning on the earth. The
Legend states that in the three hundred and sixty-third year of the
reign of Ra-Harmakhis, the ever living, His Majesty was in Ta-sti
(_i.e._ the Land of the Bow, or Nubia) with his soldiers; the enemy had
reviled him, and for this reason the land is called "Uauatet" to this
day. From Nubia Ra sailed down the river to Apollinopolis (Edfu), and
Heru-Behutet, or Horus of Edfu, was with him. On arriving there Horus
told Ra that the enemy were plotting again