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 however, Set managed to escape, and he gathered about him the Sinai and Sebȧ fiends at the Lake of Meḥ, and waged war once more against Horus; the enemies of Rā were again defeated, and Horus slew them in the presence of his father.

Horus, it seems, now ceased to fight for some time, and devoted himself to keeping guard over the "Great God" who was in Ȧn-rut-f, a district in or near Herakleopolis. This Great God was no other than Osiris, and the duty of Horus was to prevent the Sinai fiends from coming by night to the place. In spite of the power of Horus it was found necessary to summon the aid of Isis to keep away the fiends, and it was only by her words of power that the fiend Ba was kept out of the sanctuary. As a reward for what he had already done, Thoth decreed that Horus should be called the "Master-Fighter." Passing over the derivations of place-names which occur here in the text, we find that Horus and his Blacksmiths were again obliged to fight bodies of the enemy who had managed to escape, and that on one occasion they killed one hundred and six foes. In every fight the Blacksmiths perfomed mighty deeds of valour, and in reward for their services a special district was allotted to them to dwell in.

The last great fight in the North took place at Tanis, in the eastern part of the Delta. When the position of the enemy had been located, Horus took the form of a lion with the face of a man, and he put on his head the Triple Crown. His claws were like flints, and with 