sun during the day, was called
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Nen-moou, the Nile of Egypt was
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Phe-moou, the infernal Nile, or course of the sun during the night, was called Meh-moou
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, that is, “full of water,” because it was larger than either of the others, as it received the waters of both.
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THE THREE NILES.
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:—
rather appear that the Nile was called Oceanus in Homer's time, because it was supposed that it arose out of the ocean and flowed into the ocean again. In another place of the same book, he relates that the priest of Neith, at Sais, told him, as an undeniable fact, “that the Nile rose out of the earth from a deep cavern between two mountains, called Κρῶφι and Μῶφι, situated in the Thebaid between the city of Synia (Syene) and the island of Elephantine,” c. 28. Herodotus laughs at this account; for, having been himself in the Thebaid, he of course knew better. This is evidently the tradition recorded in the book of the dead. The city of Sais is in the Delta.
