Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Where Faulkner has 'Bows', Allen has the 'sky's
> arcs'.
>
>
> For example, Faulkner §1018: "...having power
> over the Bows"; Allen: "O controlling power of
> the (sky's) arcs.
>
>
> The 'Nine Bows' (psDt pDwt) = the nations of the
> world - written with T10 'composite bow', repeated
> 9x (Faulkner 2002 (1962): 95); "A collective term
> for all lands outside Egypt" (Allen 2005: 438)
>
>
> 'Nine Bows' in the PTs:
>
> "Your baton is set in your hand, (Pepi Neferkare),
> that you may open the ram-bolted gates that bar
> the Nine Bows, and take the hand of the
> Imperishable Stars." N67
>
> "The ram-bolted gates that bar Libya have been
> opened to you. Your metal baton is in your hand,
> and you shall number those of the night, direct
> the Nine Bows, and receive the Imperishable Stars'
> arm." Nt 241b (Faulkner supplement: 31;
> §1915c)
>
> "Ho, Big Ennead in Iunu - Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb,
> Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys, Atum's
> children! His heart was stretched for (you), his
> children, in your identity of the Nine Bows." N
> 359 (Sethe Vol 2: 374; §1655)
>
>
> It seems from these PTs that 'Nine Bows' may have
> a celestial counterpart.
>
> Horus had nine bows:
>
> Horus has stretched his nine bows against this akh
> that comes from the ground with his head cut off
> and tail truncated. T 260 (Sethe Vol 1: 368;
> §673b)
>
> Teti is the one who fires the bow as Horus, who
> draws the bowstring as Osiris: that one has gone,
> this one has come. T 265 (Sethe Vol 1: 372;
> §684a)



Thank you very much. There are a few places in the Pyramid Texts that
I've been wanting to substitute "rainbow" for "bow". It doesn't seem to
be a great stretch if Faulkner used "sky arcs". Perhaps the Egyptian was
"arc" in these places and the translators just used their best judgement.

"(Sethe Vol 2: 374; §1655)" This looks interesting. Is all his work in
German? It doesn't seem to be available on-line at all.

I've got to learn Egyptian.




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