33. _The King who resideth within His own Day._ A very doubtful passage at present. The words do not occur in the oldest text of the chapter (that of Nebseni), and they are omitted here in the later recensions. _Ad_ is, as far as I know, the only authority for ⁂⁂⁂⁂; other papyri having merely ⁂, which might possibly correspond to the ⁂⁂ immediately preceding. The Royal tombs have ⁂⁂⁂⁂, and one of the papyri has ⁂⁂⁂ instead of ⁂⁂⁂. All this reminds one of an obscure passage in Chapter 115, where Rā is speaking with ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ according to the Text of the Turin _Todtenbuch_. Goodwin conjectured that King Amhauf belonged ‘to the race of mythical kings who preceded Menes,’ and that his history is ‘a legend somewhat analogous to that of Deucalion and Pyrrha.’ There is a much more probable solution of the matter. ⁂⁂⁂ is meant for ⁂⁂⁂ _Sut_, and it was with this god ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂[133] ‘in his _course_’ that Rā was speaking when the disaster happened to the latter divinity, who for his talk had chosen a wrong _moment_, which really belonged to his adversary. _Cf. supra_ note 3 on Chapter 110. And here too I would instead of ⁂⁂ read ⁂⁂, and the sense of the passage would be “let not reverse of mine come to pass through Sutu, when his time cometh.” 34. _Cares_, ⁂⁂ in the later texts. The older texts differ greatly from each other: ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ is the most frequent reading. 35. _The Ass and the Cat in the house of Hept-ro._ The two personages who take part in this dialogue are known from other portions of the Book of the Dead. The Cat is Rā in the 17th chapter. And the Ass appears in the 40th chapter, as the victim of the devouring Serpent. The Sun-god overcome by darkness is Osiris; and he is so called by name in the Demotic version of this chapter. _Hepṭ-ro_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ‘god of the gaping mouth.’ The word ⁂⁂⁂ is not found elsewhere, but the meaning of it seems to be indicated by the determinative. It is very probably akin to the more common ⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂, which does not mean ‘squat’ or ‘sit,’ but ‘stretch out,’ _distendi_. _Cf._ Note 6, Chapter 63B. The ‘house of the god of the gaping mouth,’ seems to be the _Earth_, considered as the universal tomb (ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ γαῖα μέλαινα πᾶσι χάνοι, Il. 14, 417). And here Osiris and Rā (the Ass and the Cat) meet daily, ‘Yesterday’ speaketh to ‘To-day.’ יוס ליוס יביע אמר 36. _Verdict_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. A note of M. Guyesse in the _Recueil_, X, p. 64, contains references to the chief passages in which this word occurs. I will add a very important one, the picture of a god (Lefébure, _Tombeau de Seti_, p. III, pl. 33) with sword in hand, whose name is this word. The ideographic signs which express it imply (1) ‘a _cutting_ in two, parting, division,’ (2) that the act is one of speech or intellect, such as ‘judgment, decision, verdict.’ The phonetic equivalence of the signs ⁂ and ⁂ or ⁂ show that the value is that of _Seb_.