Chapter 1

, note 8.

15. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. As they are sometimes mentioned before the gods, I believe the word might be translated, the first beings, the first creatures: “die Urwesen.”

16. Here begins the second version of the chapter which has been added to the other one.

17. ⁂⁂⁂⁂. This lake is often mentioned in the texts of the pyramids. It is one of the celestial lakes not very distant from the Elysian fields.

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PLATE LVI.

BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration: CHAPTER 153B. =Louvre, III, 93.=]

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