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43 Fig. 10 lived in the swamps came out at her cries but were helpless to be of any aid. Then help came from a spacecraft: Then Isis sent forth a cry to heaven and addressed her appeal to the Boat of Millions of Years. And the Celestial Disk stood still, and moved not from the place where it was. And Thoth came down, and he was provided with magical powers, and possessed the great power which made the word be- come indeed. And he said: "O Isis, thou goddess, thou glorious one, who has knowledge of the mouth; behold, no evil shall come upon the child Horus, for his protection cometh from the Boat of Ra. "Ihave come this day in the Boat of the Celestial Disk from the place where it was yesterday. When the night cometh, this Light shall drive away [the poison] for the healing of Ho- The Contending of Horus and Seth tus... "I have come from the skies to save the child for his mother." Revived from death by the artful Thoth and, some texts say, immu-