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

8. _Its hair._ All this paragraph sounds very strangely, and translators

are tempted to understand that the _hair_, _side-lock_, and _skin_ of the deceased are acted upon by the winds.[82] But the feminine suffix shows that the converse is the case. The speaker catches the air and distributes it, as we are afterwards told, to the faithful departed. ----- Footnote 82: But we “catch Time by the forelock,” and so did the Greeks. ------------------------------------