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46 (The Egyptian texts, all written by the followers of Horus, contain no description of Seth's aerial vehicle.) The texts describe a battle that ranged far and wide, and the first to be hit was Horus—struck by a bolt of light from Seth's vehicle. The Nar lost one of its "eyes." and Horus continued the fight from the Winged Disk of Ra. From out of this he shot a “harpoon'" at Seth; now Seth was hit. and lost his testicles. . . . Dwelling on the nature of the weapon. W. Max Muller wrote in Egyptian Mythology that it had "a strange, practically impossible head" and was nicknamed in the hieroglyphic texts "the weapon of thirty." As ancient depictions reveal (Fig. 12a). the "harpoon" was indeed an ingenious three-in-one rocket: as the first, larger missile was fired, the way was opened for the two smaller missiles to be launched. The nickname ("Weapon of Thirty") suggests that the missiles were what we nowadays call Multiple Warhead Mis- siles, each missile holding ten warheads. Through sheer coincidence, but probably because similar cir- cumstances result in similar connotations, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, has named its newly devel- oped naval guided missile "The Harpoon" (Fig. 12b). The great gods called a truce and once again summoned the ad- versaries before the Council of the Gods. We glean details of the deliberations from a text inscribed on a stone column by the Pha- raoh Shabako (eighth century B.C.), who stated that the text is a copy made from a very old leather scroll, "devoured by worms," which was found buried in the great temple of Ptah at Memphis. The Council, at first, redivided Egypt between Horus and Seth along the lines of the division at the time of Osiris, but Geb had second thoughts and upset the decision, for he was concerned with the question of continuity: Who would "open the body" to succes- sive generations? Seth, having lost his testicles, could no longer have offspring. . . . And so Geb, "Lord Earth, gave as a heritage to Horus" the whole of Egypt. To Seth a dominion away from Egypt was to be given; henceforth, he was deemed by the Egyp- tians to have become an Asiatic deity. The Council of the Gods adopted the recommendations unani- mously. Its final action is thus described in the Papyrus of Hunefer: Horus is triumphant in the presence of the whole company of the gods. The sovereignty over the world hath been given unto him. and his dominion is in the uttermost parts of Earth. THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN