moveth not, and the Disk (i.e. the Sun-god) is in the place where it was yesterday to heal Horus for his mother Isis.  Come to earth, draw nigh, O Boat of Ra, O ye mariners of Ra; make the boat to move and convey food of the town of Sekhem (i.e. Letopolis) hither, to heal Horus for his mother Isis....  Come to earth, O poison!  I am Thoth, the firstborn son, the son of Ra.  Tem and the company of the gods have commanded me to heal Horus for his mother Isis.  O Horus, O Horus, thy Ka protecteth thee, and thy Image worketh protection for thee.  The poison is as the daughter of its own flame; it is destroyed because it smote the strong son.  Your temples are safe, for Horus liveth for his mother.”  Then the child Horus returned to life, to the great joy of his mother, and Thoth went back to the Boat of Millions of Years, which at once proceeded on its majestic course, and all the gods from one end of heaven to the other rejoiced.  Isis entreated either Ra or Thoth that Horus might be nursed and brought up by the goddesses of the town of Pe-Tep, or Buto, in the Delta, and at once Thoth committed the child to their care, and instructed them about his future.  Horus grew up in Buto under their protection, and in due course fought a duel with Set, and vanquished him, and so avenged the wrong done to his father by Set.

THE LEGEND OF KHENSU-NEFER-HETEP
AND THE PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN

Here for convenience’ sake may be inserted the story of the Possessed Princess of Bekhten and the driving out of the evil spirit that was in her by Khensu-Nefer-hetep.  The text of the Legend is cut in hieroglyphs on a large sandstone tablet which was discovered by J.F.  Champollion in the temple of Khensu at Thebes, and was removed by Prisse d’Avennes in 1846 to Paris, where it is now preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale.  The form of the Legend which we have is probably the work of the priests of Khensu, about 1000 B.C., who wished to magnify their god, but the incidents recorded are supposed to have taken place at the end of the fourteenth century B.C., and there may indeed be historical facts underlying the Legend.  The text states that the king of Egypt, Usermaatra-setepenra Rameses-meri-Amen, i.e. Rameses II, a king of the nineteenth dynasty about 1300 B.C., was in the country of Nehern, or Mesopotamia, according to his yearly custom, and that the chiefs of the country, even those of the remotest districts from Egypt, came to do homage to him, and to bring him gifts, i.e. to pay tribute.  Their gifts consisted of gold, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, and costly woods from the land of the god,[1] and each chief tried to outdo his neighbour in the magnificence of his gifts.  Among these tributary chiefs was the Prince of Bekhten, who, in addition to his usual gift, presented to the king his eldest daughter, and he spake words of praise to the king, and prayed for his life.  His daughter was beautiful, and the king thought her the most beautiful maiden in the world, and he gave her the name of Neferu-Ra and the rank of “chief royal wife,” i.e. the chief wife of Pharaoh.  When His Majesty brought her to Egypt she was treated as the Queen of Egypt.