That is simply translated; the midday sun illuminates nothing.

Meris, deposed, is king only in name; and the sun no longer shines on him as 'Ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt.' Under that despairing symbol, 'King of Nothing,' we have [Illustration: Glyph] the phonetics which spell _sha_, the word for garden.

And, just beyond this, horizontally, the modifying ideograph meaning 'a _water_ garden'; [Illustration: Glyph] a design of lotus and tree alternating on a terrace.

Under that is the symbol for the word '_aneb_,' [Illustration: Glyph] a 'wall.' Beyond that, horizontally, is the symbol for 'house.' It should be placed under the wall symbol, but the Egyptians were very apt to fill up spaces instead of continuing their vertical columns.

Now, beneath, we find the imperative command [Illustration: Glyph] 'arise!' And the Egyptian personal pronoun '_entuten_,' [Illustration: Glyph] which means 'you' or 'thou.' "Under that is the symbol [Illustration: Glyph] which means 'priest,' or, literally, 'priest man.' Then comes the imperative 'awake to life!' [Illustration: Glyph] After that, our first symbol again, meaning '_I_,' followed horizontally by the symbol [Illustration: Glyph] signifying 'to go.' "Then comes a very important drawing--you see ?--the picture of a man with a jackal's head, not a dog's head.