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) of Thoth with the Nile, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. From this point of view the god is both the son of the Rock and issues from the place of the Double Rock, ⁂⁂⁂, or of the two Rocks, called in the time of Herodotus Krophi and Mophi.

3. _Dumb and deaf_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. It is strange that this meaning of the passage has so long been misunderstood. The sense of the first word has long been recognised, and ‘deaf’ is the meaning rightly assigned to ⁂⁂ in Birch’s Dictionary. One instance like the following (from _Unas_, 608) is sufficient to settle the question—⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “He is not so deaf that he should not hear thy voice.”

That the subject of these attributes is the Osiris is seen by reference to _At_, where instead of ‘the Osiris’ the deceased speaks in the first person, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “I am dumb, I am deaf.”

4. _Sutu._ This divine name occurs in the text of Amenhait in the reign of Thothmes III. And I have noted another instance where the name is written ⁂⁂⁂. Dr. Birch called the papyrus Miss Brockelhurst’s. It cannot however be the _Ax_ of M. Naville, which does not contain the chapter.

The disappearance of the god’s name from all other documents is a fatal argument against their claims to high antiquity.

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