In the middle hours of the night the dead sun-god travels 'under a canopy formed by the serpent Mehen' (the Enveloper), towed through the Tuat; in the Seventh Division Apep 'surroundeth his country' and drinks the water of the passage until fettered by Her-tesu-f with Isis's words of power.
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The protective coil timed exactly to darkness: a serpent wraps the luminous, meditating/dead-but-living figure for the whole duration of the dark passage · seven days of storm, twelve hours of night · encircling without constricting, and releases the moment light returns. In both, the coiling serpent is servant and shield, and at the end it withdraws having taken nothing; the Pali text even ends with the serpent's own body abandoned (he 'made his own appearance disappear') as if the coil were only ever an instrument of the watch.
Through the middle hours of the night the sun-god traverses the Tuat standing 'under a canopy formed by the serpent Mehen' · the Enveloper · whose coil covers the god in his boat hour after hour and is quit only at the eastern exit into dawn.
set against Vinaya, Mahavagga I.3.1-4
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