CHAPTER LVIII

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_Chapter for breathing air and command of water._

Let the door be opened to me!

Who art thou? What is thy name?

I am One of You!

Who is with thee?

It is the Merta.

Turn away then(1.) front to front, on entering the Meskat.(2.)

He grants that I may sail to the Abode of those who have found their faces.

_Collector of Souls_ is the name of my Bark, _Bristler of Hair_ is the name of the Oars, _Point_[68] is the name of its Hatch, _Right and Straight_ the name of the Rudder.

The picture of it is the representation of my glorious journey upon the Canal.

Give me jars of milk and cakes and flesh meat at the House of Anubis.

_If this chapter is known he entereth after having gone out._

NOTES.

The 58th and 122nd chapters are reproductions of the same text, the earliest copy known being that of Ani.

1. _Turn away then._ Merta as we have seen is the name given to the goddess pair Isis and Nephthys. It is therefore not possible to account for the masculine pronoun ⁂ as having reference to Merta. ⁂ must be taken in the sense of _ideo_, _idcirco_, _then_, _therefore_.

2. _Meskat_, or according to another reading _Meschenit_.

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Footnote 68:

All this part is corrupt.

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