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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by E. A. Wallis Budge
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[Footnote 1: Isis and Nephthys were the daughters of Keb and Nut, and
sisters of Osiris and Set; the former was the mother of Horus, and the
latter of Anubis.]

[Footnote 2: A goddess who presided over the birth of children.]

[Footnote 3: A very ancient Frog-goddess, who was associated with
generation and birth.]

[Footnote 4: A god who assisted at the creation of the world, and who
fashioned the bodies of men and women.]

When they had arrived there Isis said to her companions: "How is it that
we who went to Rut-tetet [by the command of Rā] have worked no wonder
for the children which we could have announced to their father, who
allowed us to depart [without begging a boon]?" So they made divine
crowns such as belonged to the Lord (_i.e._ King), life, strength,
health [be to him!], and they hid them in the barley. Then they sent
rain and storm through the heavens, and they went back to the house of
Rāuser, apparently carrying the barley with them, and said to him, "Let
the barley abide in a sealed room until we dance our way back to the
north." So they put the barley in a sealed room. After Rut-tetet had
kept herself secluded for fourteen days, she said to one of her
handmaidens, "Is the house all ready?" and the handmaiden told her that
it was provided with everything except jars of barley drink, which had
not been brought. Rut-tetet then asked why they had not been brought,
and the handmaiden replied in words that seem to mean that there was no
barley in the house except that which belonged to the dancing goddesses,
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