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 them he dragged away one hundred and forty-two of the enemy, and tore them in pieces, and dug out their tongues, which he earned off as symbols of his victory.

Meanwhile rebellion had again broken out in Nubia, where about one-third of the enemy had taken refuge in the river in the forms of crocodiles and hippopotami. Rā counselled Horus to sail up the Nile with his Blacksmiths, and when Thoth had recited the “Chapters of protecting the Boat of Rā” over the boats, the expedition set sail for the South. The object of reciting these spells was to prevent the monsters which were in the river from making the waves to rise and from stirring up storms which might engulf the bouts of Rā and Horus and the Blacksmiths. When the rebels and fiends who had been uttering treason aganist Horus saw the boat of Rā, with the winged Disk of Horus accompanied by the goddesses Uatchet and Nekhebet in the form of serpents, they were smitten with fear, and their hearts quaked, and all power of resistance left them, and they died of fright straight­ way. When Horus returned in triumph to Edfû, Rā ordered that an image of the winged Disk should be placed in each of his sanctuaries, and that in every place wherein a winged Disk was set, that sanctuary should be a sanctuary of Horus of Beḥuṭet. The winged disks which are seen above the doorways of the temples still standing in Egypt show that the command of Rā was faithfully carried out by the priests. 