TAA i.2.4.5a
Notes on this page refer to text on (facing) page 5.
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Notes
(1)
Head of the Meht-writ Cow, which in all probability is a
figurative form of the goddess Hathor as 'Mistress of Amentit',
of 'the Land of Sunset', <Mistress of Ta zesert (the Sacred Land)>, called "The Eye of Re', who receives in
her Mountain of the West the Setting Sun and the dead.
Erman Vol.
p. 69. [ 𓂀 ] Mḥt-wRt heavenly cow
p. 16. [ 𓂀 ], ỉRt Rʿ, name of Hathor (the Eye of Re)
cf. Erman, Eg. Religion, pp. 12, 18, and 31.
Pap. Ani. pl. 8,, Chap. 17. [ 𓂀 ] sic Le page Renouf p. 12. the great cow "Meh-writ, the Eye of Ra"
with the flail and with the symbol Menat round the neck.
(2)
"Emblems of the dark world under the Earth, to which the Sun sinks in the West,
and where also the dead belong"