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, is uncertain, but the meaning is plain enough. There are

many pictures showing a divinity (the sun or moon-god) hidden within or behind a tree.

38. _That the Balance may be set upon its stand within the bower of amaranth._

_Cf._ the passage (Rochemonteix, _Edfou_, p. 191) where mention is made of the divine powers which animate the Princes who are in the train of Osiris and who lift the Balance upon the stand before them ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂.

_Amaranth_ (see Note 3 of