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

word ⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂. This is often used in a bad sense, when spoken of the enemy; but it merely implies tenacity, pertinacity, obstinacy, which are, of course, very bad things in opposition, but in themselves virtues of a high order.[40] The word is used as a name for the divine Cynocephali ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ who appear at sunrise over the _Tank of Flame_. 4. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, _the same who bringeth into being the gods out of Silence, or reduceth them to inactivity_. In addition to this interesting utterance of Egyptian theology, we have to note the idea of _Silence_ ⁂⁂⁂ as the origin of the gods, or powers of nature. The notion was also current in the Greek world. The writer of the _Philosophumena_ (VI, 22) speaks of ἡ ὑμνουμένη ἐκείνη παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι Ζιγή. It was from this source that the early Gnostic Valentinus borrowed this item of his system. St. Irenaeus (_Haeres_, II, 14) charges him with having taken it from the theogony of the comic poet Antiphanes. ----- Footnote 37: ⁂⁂ _Nu_. Footnote 38: ⁂. Footnote 39: See also in Plate XI the Vignette from chapter 17 in the Turin and all the later papyri. Footnote 40: Columella speaks of the “contumacia pervicax boum.” ------------------------------------