[TIÊU ĐỀ GỐC]: Chapter for breathing air and command of water.
Chương cầu đắc không khí và làm chủ nguồn nước.
Oh thou Sycomore of Nut, give me of the water and of the wind
which are within thee.
It is I who hold that abode which is in Heracleopolis, I watch
over that Egg of the Great Cackler. My strength is the strength
thereof, my life the life thereof, and my breath the breath thereof.
Notes.
On the mythological tree in heaven which produces both wind
and water, that is the rain-cloud, see my Egyptian Mythology,
particularly with reference to Mist and Cloud, in Trans. Soc. Bibl.
Arch., Vol. VIII.
The same kind of imagery is still current in Europe. German
authorities tell us about the ‘Wetterbaum,’ which in some places is
called ‘Abraham’s Tree,’ in others, ‘Adam’s Tree.’ The Yggdrasill
myth is supposed to have the same origin. The Rainbow is the
heavenly Mountain Ash of a well known Swedish and Esthonian
riddle. The water from heaven was supposed in Egypt to be
especially refreshing for the dead.
