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Rh sun during the day, was called  Nen-moou, the Nile of Egypt was   Phe-moou, the infernal Nile, or course of the sun during the night, was called Meh-moou , that is, “full of water,” because it was larger than either of the others, as it received the waters of both.

There is a passage in the book of the dead which immediately follows the commencing scene, written under the picture of the bark of the first hour of the night, which gives us the geography of the Meh-moou. It reads thus:—