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

51. _The Truncheon of Hathor_, ⁂⁂⁂ does not appear to be a very

familiar word to the scribes, who write it in the most diverse ways possible; one of them even understanding it as the ‘opening of heaven’ ⁂⁂. All that we can say is that the word is shown by its determinative to be of _wood_, and by its etymology (_cf._ ⁂⁂, ⁂) to serve for _striking_, _blinding_, or _slaying_. Some of the texts name Hathor, and others Nephthys. The sign ⁂ occurs in both names, and the scribes have read the rest of the name as best they could.