Oh thou of the potent Lock, king of hosts, who art seized of the Two Worlds; whose father’s house is seized(6.) [by him] in virtue of the writs(7.); my balance is perfectly even, my voice is law, and I prevail over all mine adversaries.(8.) NOTES. 1. [_Each one and his._] These words are necessary for the purpose of bringing out the meaning of the text. Every god, it has already been said, has his circle of associates. The feminine suffix ⁂ after ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ shows the concordance with ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, which, like other collective nouns, is of the feminine gender. 2. The exact text here is doubtful, and the sense of ⁂⁂ depends upon it. ⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂ is the well known title of a priestly official, whose presence was required in the ritual of the dead. He is sometimes in attendance upon royal personages. Here according to its etymological sense the word might simply mean a relative. 3. _Kamit_ ⁂⁂⁂, the “Black Land” is Egypt; _Tesherit_ ⁂⁂, the “Red Land,” is whatever lies beyond the limits of Egypt. 4. _The drowning of his mother_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. _Drowning_ maybe too strong a word, but immersion at least is meant. We are at present without any other reference to this incident in the career of the goddess Isis. 5. Here occurs a word, ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ of doubtful meaning. As the next word to it begins a sentence, it must be considered as connected with the words preceding it. I am not satisfied that “silently” or “causing silence” would be a grammatical solution of the question. 6. Seized (throughout this chapter) in the juridical sense of _seisin_ or feudal possession. 7. _Writs_ ⁂⁂⁂, a reading of three early papyri, which has disappeared in the later ones. The Turin _Todtenbuch_ has ⁂⁂⁂, “with his two hands.” 8. Here the chapter ends in _Pi_, and even sooner in the later texts. The three older papyri differ as to the words which immediately follow, and are certainly corrupt and unintelligible. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CXXXIX. Identical with CHAPTER CXXIII. _This completes Sir P. Le Page Renouf’s translation of the Book of the Dead, so far as he had prepared it for publication at the time of his death._ BOOK OF THE DEAD. BY EDOUARD NAVILLE, _D.C.L._, _&c., &c._ INTRODUCTORY NOTE. During the last days of his life, the lamented Sir Peter Le Page Renouf, foreseeing that he would not be able to reach the goal he had been striving to attain, the completion of his translation of the Book of the Dead, expressed the wish that the writer of these lines should continue and complete his work. I did not feel at liberty to go against the desire of the eminent master, who had done me the honour to choose me as his successor, and to leave unfinished a work which he had kept in view all his life long, and which he considered to be the choicest fruit of his Egyptological researches.