fettered.  After looking upon his slaughtered foes Ra said to the gods who were with him, “Behold, let us sail in our boat on the water, for our hearts are glad because our enemies have been overthrown on the earth.”  So the Boat of Ra moved onwards towards the north, and the enemies of the god who were on the banks took the form of crocodiles and hippopotami, and tried to frighten the god, for as his boat came near them they opened their jaws wide, intending to swallow it up together with the gods who were in it.  Among the crew were the Followers of Horus of Edfu, who were skilled workers in metal, and each of these had in his hands an iron spear and a chain.  These “Blacksmiths” threw out their chains into the river and allowed the crocodiles and hippopotami to entangle their legs in them, and then they dragged the beasts towards the bows of the Boat, and driving their spears into their bodies, slew them there.  After the slaughter the bodies of six hundred and fifty-one crocodiles were brought and laid out before the town of Edfu.  When Thoth saw these he said, “Let your hearts rejoice, O gods of heaven, Let your hearts rejoice, O ye gods who dwell on the earth.  The Young Horus cometh in peace.  On his way he hath made manifest deeds of valour, according to the Book of slaying the Hippopotamus.”  And from that day they made figures of Horus in metal.

Then Horus of Edfu took the form of the winged disk, and set himself on the prow of the Boat of Ra.  He took with him Nekhebet, goddess of the South, and Uatchet, goddess of the North, in the form of serpents, so that they might make all the enemies of the Sun-god to quake in the South and in the North.  His foes who had fled to the north doubled back towards the south, for they were in deadly fear of the god.  Horus pursued and overtook them, and he and his blacksmiths had in their hands spears and chains, and they slew large numbers of them to the south-east of the town of Thebes in Upper Egypt.  Many succeeded in escaping towards the north once more, but after pursuing them for a whole day Horus overtook them, and made a great slaughter among them.  Meanwhile the other foes of the god, who had heard of the defeats of their allies, fled into Lower Egypt, and took refuge among the swamps of the Delta.  Horus set out after them, and came up with them, and spent four days in the water slaying his foes, who tried to escape in the forms of crocodiles and hippopotami.  He captured one hundred and forty-two of the enemy and a male hippopotamus, and took them to the fore part of the Boat of Ra.  There he hacked them in pieces, and gave their inward parts to his followers, and their mutilated bodies to the gods and goddesses who were in the Boat of Ra and on the river banks in the town of Heben.