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), purification was obtained.

The god ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (also named among the 42 judges) whose face looks backwards, and who is said to be gate keeper of Osiris, must be a star (_e.g._ γ Cepheus) in the immediate neighbourhood of the Polar Star which represented Osiris. On the ancient coffins of Amamu and Sit-Bastit there is a chapter[87] for assuming the form of a Vulture ⁂⁂⁂, in which the speaker says “I am the Vulture god who is on the ⁂⁂⁂⁂.”

I suspect that in the formula ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ said of Osiris on the stelæ of the twelfth dynasty, the constellation in heaven and not a place at Abydos was meant.

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Footnote 86:

Brugsch, _Rec._, II, pl. 63. The whole tomb has now been published by M. Bénédite in the _Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique au Caire_, tome 5.

Footnote 87:

It was afterwards incorporated with chapter 149 .

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