_Secured by reason of the writing with gum mixed with colours upon a strip of royal papyrus, put at the throat of the deceased on the day of burial. If these phylacteries are put at his throat, he will rise up as one of the Divine Circle, and be united to the followers of Horus, whilst his Lamp is made firm by Isis in heaven beside Sothis. He followeth Horus who resideth in Sothis.(1.) His Shade becometh divine as well as human. Vegetation is made to grow out of his body through the goddess Menkit.(2.) He becometh a god for ever, and his limbs are made vigorous in the Netherworld through Thoth, who hath done the like to Osiris, in causing the light to rise out of his dead body; undeviatingly and for times infinite._ NOTES. This chapter does not occur in the earlier collections known to us. 1. _Horus who resideth in Sothis_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂; _cf._ Teta, 277. 2. _Menkit_ is one of the names of Hathor, but the place is corrupt and the true reading uncertain. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CII. _Chapter whereby one entereth into the Bark of Rā._ O Great One in thy Bark, let me be lifted into thy Bark. Let me make head for thy staircase. Let me have charge of those who convey thee, who are attached to thee, who are of the Stars which never set. That which I abominate, I eat not: and that which I abominate is Dirt, let me not eat of it, but of peace offerings and of _Ka_-offerings, by which I shall not be upset. Let me not approach it with my hands, let me not tread upon it with my sandals, because my bread is of the white corn and my beer of the red corn of the Nile. It is the Sektit boat and the Āātit which have brought me to the food and raiment which are upon the altar of the Spirits of Annu. Salutation to thee, Ur-ar-set, in that voyage of heaven and the disaster in Tennu, when those dogs were gathered together, not without giving voice. I have come myself and delivered the god from that pain and suffering, that was in trunk, in shoulder and in leg. I have come and healed(1.) the trunk, and fastened the shoulder and made firm the leg. And I embark for the voyage of Rā. NOTE. 1. _Healed._ Such is the meaning of ⁂⁂⁂, as in chapter 147, 17, and Unas 214, no less than in a passage which does not occur in the most ancient texts of chapter 17, but which is found in the papyri and is derived from the early traditions. Thoth healed the face of Horus. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CIII. _Chapter whereby one openeth the place where Hathor abideth._ I am a pure follower. O Ahi; O Ahi;(1.) let me become one of the followers of Hathor. NOTE.