ABSTRACT
THE TWELFTH DIVISION, or HOUR, or CITY, is called KHEPER-KEKIU-KHAU-MESTU, the name of its Gate is THEN-NETERU. The Hour-goddess is MAA-NEFERT-RA, it is the "uttermost limit of thick darkness", and it contains the great celestial watery abyss NU, and the goddess NUT who is here the personification of the "womb of the morning". For the beings who were left in the Tuat, for those who were not provided for by Osiris in SEKHET-AARU and SEKHET-HETEPET, existence must have been a sad one. For they were obliged to sit in darkness and misery, except for brief space each night when AFU-RA passed through their DIVISIONS. When the gods who were in his train lightened the darkness with fire which proceeded from their bodies, the god himself, taking pity on those to whom the making of offerings on earth had ceased, and spoke the words which procured sustenance for them.
