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CHAPTER III
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She here is daughter of Heaven, and wife of the sun (4, 5); _ib_.76.1, she is the eye of the world; and _ib_ 81.

4, she is invoked as 'mother.' There is, at times, so close a resemblance between Dawn-hymns and Sun-hymns that the imagery employed in one is used in the other.

Thus the hymn VI.

64 begins: "The beams of Dawn have arisen, shining as shine the waters' gleaming waves.

She makes good paths, ...


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