But if there be a delay in the bringing of my soul to me, thou shalt find the Eye of Horus standing firm against thee, like those undrowsy Watchers who lie in Annu, the land wherein are thousands of reunions. Let my Soul be caught, and the Chu which is with it, wheresoever it abideth. Track out(2.) among the things in heaven and upon earth that soul of mine, wherever it abideth. But if there be a delay in thy causing me to see my Soul and my Shade, thou shalt find the Eye of Horus standing firm against thee. --------------------- Oh ye gods who draw along the Bark of the Eternal one: ye who lift up above the Tuat, and who raise up the Sky: ye who enable the Souls to enter into the mummied forms; ye whose hands grasp the cordage, hold firm with your ropes and stop the adversaries that the Bark may rejoice and the god proceed in peace. And now grant that my Soul may come forth in your train from the Eastern horizon of Heaven for ever and ever. NOTES. The oldest papyri present a much shorter form than the later ones. That portion which is here separated by a line from what goes before it first appears on the sarcophagus of Seti I and in the papyrus of Ani. The vignette is a very favourite decoration of mummies. 1. _Keep_ ⁂⁂ of which the regular variant in this chapter is not _saḥ_ but ⁂⁂ _seḫen_. 2. _Track out_, ⁂⁂⁂ is _investigare_, ἐξιχινεύειν, to follow the traces like a dog. _See_ _ Denk._ II, 3, where the word occurs in the title of “master of the trackers,” determined by a man holding a hound in leash. It is from this notion that the sense of _sight_ or _looking_ appears in ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⲛⲁⲩ. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XC. _Chapter whereby Memory is restored(1.) to a person._ Oh thou who choppest off heads and cuttest throats, but restorest memory in the mouth of the dead through the Words of Power which they possess: thou seest me not with thine eyes, thou perceivest not with thy feet;(2.) thou turnest back thy face, thou seest not the executioners of Shu, who are coming behind thee to chop off thine own head and to cut thy throat. Let not my mouth be closed, through the Words of Power which I possess; even as thou hast done to the dead, through the Words of Power which they possess. Away with the two sentences uttered by Isis when thou camest to fling remembrance at the mouth of Osiris(3.) and the heart of Sutu, his enemy, saying:— NOTES.