Egyptian Book of the Dead

CHAPTER LV.

CHAPTER LV. Another chapter whereby air is given. I am the Jackal of jackals, I am Shu, who convey breezes, in presence of the Glorious one( 1 ), to the ends of the sky, to the ends of the earth, to the ends of the filaments of Cloud( 2 ). I give air to those Younglings as I open my mouth and gaze with my two eyes. Notes. 1. The Glorious one. This is the most usual reading. Pa has Râ. 2. Filaments of Cloud. Cloud is the sense, not the translation of 110 [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] , or, as it is also written, [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] , which is the name of some tree or shrub which has not been identified. The filaments [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] or [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] , which are among its characteristics, point in this context to the long fibrous forms presented by the cirrus cloud.