Chapter 17

, referred to in note 1, states that the “place of Maāt is at Abydos.” It is, of course, the mystical, not the geographical, Abydos which is meant, and the _suit_ ⁂⁂ (_res_) which has to be settled is the final judgment of the deceased.

5. The throne of Osiris in pictures of the Psychostasia (_see_ Vignettes to Chapter 125 ) rests upon water, out of which there springs a lotus flower; and upon this flower stand the four children of Horus. In a passage of