The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

Sun because of the homonymy between the Egyptian name ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _mȧȧu_ of the animal and the attributive ⁂⁂⁂ _mau_, ‘shining’ said of the Sun. But the Egyptian scribe gives a different etymological explanation. Sau said of Râ “he is ⁂⁂ _maȧu_ of what he hath made.” ⁂⁂ may, like the Latin _exemplar_, be either the type or the prototype, the copy or the original. The creatures of Râ were made after his likeness. Sanskrit literature, from the Çatapatha Brahmana down to the Vishnu Purâna, is full of similar etymologies. The Egyptians from the very first delighted in this play upon words.