chapter 146

, we see that the ⁂⁂⁂ is a door, a gate, which has

to be passed in order to reach the ⁂⁂⁂⁂. Behind each ⁂⁂⁂ a ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is represented as a shrine close to which is its god. And also in the book called ⁂⁂⁂, _the book of what is in the Tuat_, we see that Rā has to go through the ⁂⁂⁂ and make a long navigation before he reaches the gods of the Tuat.

144 and 147 are two different versions of the same chapter, and no old papyrus has them both. It is the same with chapters 145 and 146. Evidently before the Saitic period, for these chapters, as for the 15th, there was no received text, and the writers had the choice between various versions which the compilers of the Turin text collected together. There are seven ⁂⁂⁂, and the deceased who approaches them has to know three names; first, the ⁂⁂⁂⁂ ⁂⁂⁂ whom Renouf calls _the porter_, evidently from his being styled in