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is at the same time, also addressed as Ani, the lord of the New Moon
festival and he is termed "_the lord of all the gods_ whose appearances
are in the horizon." His all-embracing nature is clearly conveyed by the
passages terming him "the maker and lord of things which are below and of
things which are above;" "of the heaven and earth." The above evidence
suffices to show that, on the one hand, Amen-Ra is constantly referred to
as the "One god, without a second, the knowledge of whose nature is
concealed from men and gods, who reveals himself in innumerable forms; who
exerts hidden control and universal dominion and is associated with
stability and power, time and eternity." On the other hand, stress is laid
on his dual nature: Amen-Ra is bi-sexual and self-creative; alternately
becomes light and darkness; and the sun and moon are the eyes of his
"hidden face," which, literally translated, yields Amen-Hra.

In the hymn previously cited he is also termed the "lord of the sky, the
establisher of all things, ... the extender of foot-steps.... _One_ in his
times as among the gods...." He is apostrophized as "the maker of the
gods, who hast stretched out the heavens and founded the earth," "the
chief who makest the earth like unto himself,".... "President of the great
cycle of the gods, _only one without his second_ ... living in Law every
day.... O Form, _one_, creator of all things, O _one_ only, maker of
existences ... he giveth the breath of life to (the germ) in the egg....
Hail to thee, thou _only one_!... _He watches all people who sleep_ ...
all people adore thee.... O thou ... _the untiring watcher_, Amsu-amen
lord of eternity, the Maker of Law...." Another passage states: "the aten
(disk) is thy body" (_i. e._ image or symbol). In the legend of Ra and
Isis, quoted above, the god is made to say of himself: "I am the maker of
the hours, the creator of days, I am the opener of the festivals of the
year.... I am he who when he opens his eyes [_i. e._ the sun and moon]
becometh light, when he shutteth his two eyes, becometh darkness." Brugsch
tells us that Ra, whom he accepts as the day-sun, was addressed as the
master of double or two-fold force, who illuminates the world with his two
eyes and "was symbolized by two lions." Further on I shall quote facts
establishing that the king and queen of Egypt were respectively named the
right and left eye of Amen-Ra, were associated with sun and moon, regarded
as the personif