Looking (Waters)

Looking (Waters, Canal) (ptrtj, ptr)

designation of a portion of the sky’s waters, probably placid enough to serve as a mirror. (J.P. Allen 2005: 435)

Pyramid Texts:

W 209 (PT 304) Sethe Vol. 1: 241; §468a (antechamber N wall): 

ptrw:  Q3 (p) X1 (t) D140 (det. in ptr - see / look, also ideo. for same) E23 (rw) (recumbent lion - 'phonetic influence', Shmakov 2012: 226)

Corresponding Coffin Text (T3Be):

Q3 (p) X1 (t) D21 (r) X1 (t) D140 (D10 x2)

Allen:  Greetings, Anubis’s daughter at the sky’s Looking (Waters) (ptrw), you whom Thoth endowed, at the ladder’s uprights! Open Unis’s path, that Unis may pass. Greetings, ostrich at the Winding Canal’s lip! Open a path for Unis, that Unis may pass.

Faulkner:  …the windows of the sky…

P 292 (PT 456) Sethe Vol. 1: 475; §852d: 

Allen:  Greetings, great one, son of a great one - you to whom the Great House’s platform runs, to whom the Flame-house goes off, for whom the Looking (Waters’) caverns are opened, to whom the sunlight’s stretches are released!

Faulkner:  …the apertures of the sky-windows…

P 449 (PT 510) Sethe Vol. 2: 136; §1138c:

Allen:  The earth will be hacked up for him and a presented offering laid down for him, for he has appeared as king and he has my insignia and his throne. He will cross the Looking Canal, he will traverse the Winding Canal, and She of Buto will take the arm of Pepi at the (inner) limit of her sanctuary, at the (inner) limit of her inaccessible place that the god has made for her.

Faulkner:  …I cross the Ptry-water…

P 457 (PT 503)  Sethe Vol. 2: 93; §1078b: 

Allen:  The sky has been opened, the earth has been opened, the Looking (Waters’) caverns have been opened, the stretches of Nu have been opened, the sunlight’s stretches have been loosed by this sole one who is stable every day”:  this has been said before him as he goes up to the sky.

Faulkner:  …the apertures of the celestial windows…

P 467 (PT 519) Sethe Vol. 2: 173; §1203c: 

Allen:  Open, door of the Looking (Waters)! Pull open, door of the lower peak! Dual Ennead, let this Pepi proceed with you to the Marsh of Rest, to the new state of this Pepi, of a possessor of honor. This Meryre will strike with the baton, this Pepi will direct with the papyrus-scepter, and Pepi will lead the Sun’s circuit.

Faulkner:  The doors of the sky-windows…

P 538:

Allen:  The Looking (Waters') cavern has been opened to you, your striding the sunlight has been broadened for you.

P 584 (PT 691E): 

Allen:  the mouth of the Looking Canal and receive your coffer and two chests in the two marshes [ ... ].

N 358 (PT 604) Sethe Vol. 1: 388; §1680b: 

Q3 (p) X1 (t) D140 (det. in ptr - see / look, also ideo. for same) + G7 ‘falcon on standard’ det. ‘divine’

Allen:  Raise yourself, great father Pepi Neferkare, and sit at their fore. The Looking (Waters’) cavern has been opened for you and your stride will broaden the sunlight.

Faulkner:  The aperture of the sky-window…

Nt 272a (PT 503) Sethe Vol. 1: 93; §1078b: 

Allen:  “The sky has been opened, the earth has been opened, the Looking (Waters’) caverns have been opened, the stretches of Nu have been opened, the sunlight’s stretches have been loosed by this sole one who is stable every day”:  say this before me as I go up to the sky.

Faulkner:  …the apertures of the celestial windows…

'two looking eyes' / 'eyes which see':

CT 531 VI, 123b (M3 6C & M1 Ann)

Shmakov:  Greetings (lit. I have tended your face) beautiful of face, owner of two looking eyes.

Faulkner:  Hail to you, you who are kindly of countenance, owner of eyes which see, …

Wooden coffins from the 5th and 6th dynasties were plain with flat lids. "The decoration consisted of a single line of offering text running round the upper part of the box, to which a pair of eyes were added on later examples (Type RI). The mummy's face lay behind the pair of eyes, making it possible to 'see' out, reflecting the fact that, until late in the Middle Kingdom, the body lay on its left side." (Ikram, Dodson 1998: 196)

"The deceased lies on the left side, with the head facing north so that it may look toward the east, where the bereaved approach bearing offerings. The eastern face of the coffin and the coffin chamber is therefore reserved primarily for the offering motif, while the western face displays scenes showing the burial and the tomb equipment. A pair of eyes is painted on the eastern side of the coffin, through which the deceased can watch the offerings, gaze on the rising sun, and participate in the diurnal journal of the sun god. The desire of the deceased to leave the coffin chamber freely and return at any time is made possible with the help of the false door facade which is often used to decorate the long narrow sides of the coffin…" (TAGS, D. Redford / G. Lapp & A Niwinski 2002: 48)

False door and eye panel from the interior of the outer coffin of Djehutynakhte late 11th Dynasty, from El-Bersha:

Coffin Texts 

CT 162 II 392b (BH2C)

Faulkner:  Such is the east wind which opens the celestial windows; …

Shmakov:  this is the eastern wind that opens the Looking-canal.

CT 225 III 214c

ptr: Q3 (p) X1 (t) D21 (r) + M6 (det. for some roots ending in tr) + D140 (det. in ptr 'see', 'look')

Faulkner:  Ho N! The sky is opened for you, the door-bolts of Geb are opened for you, the shutters of the sky-windows (ptr) are thrown open for you.

CT 344 IV, 367m

Faulkner: …they row me on the Waterway of the Sky-windows....

Theban Recension of The Book of Going Forth by Day, Chapter 68: 

Faulkner / Goelet:  The doors of the sky are opened for me, the doors of the earth are opened for me, the door-bolts of Geb are opened for me, the shutters of the sky-windows are thrown open for me.

Cavern (TpHt); Cavern / Cave (qrt)

determinatives used with TpHt: 'half-sky' sign; 'half-sky' sign + V9; O20 'shrine'; O32 'gateway'; O1 'building', 'place'.

W 15 (PT 240) Sethe Vol. 1: 135; §245a:

(CT has O1 det. for 'building' / 'place')

Allen:  Be dragged away, you in his cavern (TpHt).

Faulkner:  …and you are dragged off, O you who are in your cavern...

W 161 (PT 250) Sethe Vol. 1: 145; §268d:

Allen:  Unis….at the fore of Nu's cavern (TpHt).

Faulkner:  …Cavern of the Abyss.

W 182 (PT 276) Sethe Vol. 1: 217; §417b:

Allen:  …you Digger (a snake) in his cavern (qrqt)

Faulkner:  …who are in your hole(?)

W 204 (PT 299) Sethe Vol. 1: 230; §444b:

Allen:  …the cavern's (TpHt) bull.

Faulkner:  …the Bull of the Cavern (the snake in its hole)

W 206 (PT 301) Sethe Vol. 1: 233; §451a:

Allen:  Look, Unis has gotten you your great eastern eye from the cavern...

P 32 (PT 438) Sethe Vol. 1: 447; §810c:

Allen:  Live! Live - you have not really died - like Horus, foremost of Letopolis (xm), lives:  he to whom the great cavern (TpHt) has been opened, the Heliopolitan…

Faulkner:  …The Great Cavern of On (jwnw) is opened to him...

P 292 (PT 456) Sethe Vol. 1: 475; §852d:

Allen:  Greetings, great one, son of a great one - you to whom the Great House’s platform runs, to whom the Flame-house goes off, for whom the Looking (Waters’) caverns are opened, to whom the sunlight’s stretches are released! 

Faulkner:  …the apertures of the sky-windows…

P 395 (PT 501B)

Allen:  You of the cavern...

P 405 (PT 502G)

Allen:  ...the caverns will be closed...

P 444

Allen:  […his cavern] north of the lake...

P 457 (PT 503) Sethe Vol. 2: 93; §1078b

Allen:  The sky has been opened, the earth has been opened, the Looking (Waters’) caverns have been opened, the stretches of Nu have been opened, the sunlight’s stretches have been loosed by this sole one who is stable every day”:  this has been said before him as he goes up to the sky. 

Faulkner:  …the apertures of the celestial windows are opened, the movements of the Abyss are revealed.

P 523 (PT 581) Sethe Vol. 2: 331; §1551a

Allen:  This which is your cavern - Osiris's broadhall, Pepi, that fetches the wind - is what will bring the northwind and bear you as Osiris, Pepi.

Faulkner:  This is this cavern of yours, the Broad Hall, O Osiris the King…

note:  Broadhall (wsxt) - in mortuary temples, the room in front of the sanctuary (wider than deep), traditional locus of offering rites.

N 358 (PT 604) Sethe Vol. 2: 388; §1680b

Allen:  Raise yourself, great father Pepi Neferkare, and sit at their fore. The Looking (Waters') cavern has been opened for you and your stride will broaden the sunlight.

Faulkner:  …the aperture of the sky-window is opened for you…

N 470

Allen:  …open to Pepi Neferkare the cavern, pull open to Pepi Neferkare the shrine...

N 529

Allen:  …he who ran off in his ba has been returned [to his cavern]

'Maidum Geese'

White fronted goose (Anser albifrons)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22679881/0

Bean Goose (Anser fabalis)

Red-breasted goose (Branta ruficolis)

Chris Tedder, Spring 2015