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30 In spite of the proclamation of Horus by Thoth as a bringer of peace, peace was not yet in hand. As the company of the gods kept advancing northward, "they glimpsed two brightnesses on a plain southeast of Thebes. And Ra said to Thoth: "This is the enemy; Vee TT 1a WA a Tn let Horus slaughter them. ...". And Horus made a great massacre among them." Once again, with the aid of the army of men he had trained and armed, Horus was victorious; and Thoth kept naming the locations after the successful battles. While the first aerial battle broke through the defenses separat- ing Egypt from Nubia at Syene (Aswan), the ensuing battles on land and water secured for Horus the bend of the Nile, from Thebes to Dendera. There great temples and royal sites proliferated in days to come. Now the way was open into the heartland of Egypt. For several days the gods advanced northward—Horus keeping watch from the skies in the Winged Disk, Ra and his companions sailing down the Nile, and the Metal People guarding the flanks on land. A series of brief, but fierce, encounters then ensued; the place names—well established in ancient Egyptian geography- indicate that the attacking gods reached the area of lakes that had stretched in antiquity from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean (some of which still remain): Then the enemies distanced themselves from him, toward the north. They placed themselves in the water district, facing the back-sea of the Mediterranean; and their hearts were stricken But Horus. the Winged Measurer, followed close behind them in the boat of Ra, the Divine Iron in his hand. And all his Helpers, armed with weapons of iron forged, were But the attempt to surround and entrap the enemies did not suc- ceed: "For four days and four nights he roamed the waters in pur- suit of them, without seeing even one of the enemies." Ra then advised him to go up again in the Winged Disk, and this lime Ho- rus was able to see the fleeing enemies; “he hurled his Divine Lance after them and he slew them, and performed a great over- THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN And Horus stood behind the emblem, upon the boat of Ra, the Divine Iron and the ehain in his hand. with fear of him. staged all around.