Chapter CXII

C1hapter whereby one knoweth the Powers of Pu.[]

2Oh thou of corpselike form who art in Chait and Ânpit; thou goddess of the Net, who art in Pu; ye who preside over the untilled lands, ye stars and constellations.... Know ye wherefore Pu hath been given to Horus?

3I know it if ye know it not.

4It was Râ who gave it to him in amends of the blindness in his eye, in consequence of what Râ said to Horus: “Let me look at what is happening in thine eye to-day,” and he looked at it.

5Râ said to Horus, “Look, pray, at that black swine.”

6He looked, and a grievous mishap afflicted his eye.

7Horus said to Râ, “Lo, my eye is as though the eye of Sutu had made a wound in my own eye.” And wrath devoured his heart.

8And Râ said to the gods, “Let him be laid upon his bed, that he may recover.”

9It was Sutu who had taken the form of a black swine, and he wrought the wound which was in the eye of Horus.

10And Râ said to the gods, “The swine is an abomination to Horus; may he get well.” And the swine became an abomination to Horus.

11And the circle of gods said, who were with him when Horus came to light in his own children: “Let the sacrificial victims for him be of his oxen, of his goats, and of his swine.”

12As for Emsta, Hapi, Tuamautef, Kebhsenuf, Horus is their father and Isis their mother.

13And Horus said to Râ, “Give me then two brothers in Pu and two brothers in Nechen, of this my own body; and that they may be with me as an everlasting renewal, through which the earth flourisheth and storms are quenched.”

14And his name became that of Horus upon his Column.

15I know the Powers of Pu: they are Horus, Emsta and Hapi.