With all these references to rainbows it's surprising that people don't see the PT in a new light. It's not only "steps of light", "the vault of the sky", "bows", "sky arcs", and "celestial expanse" all complete with the shadow of the water source above but there's another reference which I initially hesitated to post because it is much easier for the modern mind to misinterpret.

Utterance 414.

737a. To say: O N.,
737b. take thy garment of light, take thy veil upon thee,

The dead king's "garment of light" exists only when he has been transmogrified and is standing. It is a veil because it is worn over his face rather than his joined bones.

737c. clothe thyself with the eye of Horus, which was in Tȝi.t,

The "eye of horus" that "was in tayet (the quarry)" can only be the upper eye of horus in which the water is seated to be collected at altitude. They don't quarry stone around the eye of horus in the ben ben on the primeval mound.

737d. that it may gain thy respect among the gods, that it make for thee a sign of recognition among the gods,

The king is recognized by his "veil of light".

737e. that thou mayest take the wrr.t-crown by means of it among the gods,

The crown is the water spraying over his face and is upon his head in the upper eye.

He can only take the crown when his bones are joined/ his veil of light is on/ he stands in the lower eye etc etc.

737f. that thou mayest take the wrr.t-crown by means of it with Horus lord of men.

Horus senior is the lord of men because directs all natural phenomena (the ennead) in the Land of Rainbows at the Mouth of Caves.

Sometimes it seems like they weren't even speaking English.

There are more references to rainbows but if people can't see rainbows in "ordering the lights above", "light scatterer of the sky", "celestial expanse", and the many other terms which almost must be taken to mean rainbows then seeing the reference to a moonbow and that the accretion at the source of the geyser is "adorned with a rainbow" will be impossible. There is even a rainbow caused by the "flame under which the gods create".

It was largely the rainbow and tides that allowed ancient man to make the remarkable discoveries they made.

I am amazed that people don't see a rainbow in these words. I can't imagine what words they'd have had to use to get a simple little concept like "rog g biv" translated into terms we can understand. I'd be most interested in hearing opinions on this. What would they have said if they wanted people to think of "rainbow"?

What is so magical about the English words "rain", "bow", and "rainbow" that English speakers think there is no other way to mean a circular expanses of light formed by water droplets with the sun from behind the viewer? It doesn't have to rain to see a rainbow. The sun doesn't even have to be shining.