chapter 23

.

2. The Turin text and those which agree with it read “Do not thou utter,” as if the Crocodile were about to use the Word of Power. I read ⁂⁂⁂⁂. The ⁂ was first corrupted into ⁂, and ⁂⁂ was farther improved into ⁂⁂⁂, which in its turn necessitated the addition of a suffix of the second person.

3. This name was changed in the later texts to the more familiar one of the divine Ape ⁂⁂ _Benit_.

4. _Fixed Law_, ⁂ or ⁂⁂. The central idea of theology in the Book of the Dead is that of _Regularity_, whether in permanence or change. Those things alone are divine which abide unceasingly or which recur in accordance with undeviating _rule_.

5. _Determineth._ The word ⁂⁂ here, as in other places, has the sense of circumscribing, as in a circuit ⁂⁂, prescribing the limits, fixing and determining.

6. _The Cliff of Tuf_ ⁂⁂, literally ‘his cliff,’ namely of Anubis, in allusion to his frequent title ⁂⁂.

7. _Sitting._ Here I follow _Pc_ and the papyri generally in reading ⁂⁂. The scribe of _Ca_ seems to have been thinking of ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ of a well-known magic text (Unas, 320).

-----

Footnote 49:

See chapter 21 , 1.

------------------------------------

##