The ancient papyri do not contain this chapter. The translation is made from the Turin _Todtenbuch_, supplemented and corrected from hieratic papyri in Paris. Its real meaning is difficult to understand. It seems that under symbolical expressions it refers to an astronomical phenomenon, the renewal of the sun after the winter solstice. According to the principle which I have adopted, to maintain my predecessor’s interpretations, I translated ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “the Eye is full” (_cf._ Notes on ch. 125, p. 214). But as it seems evident that here the two eyes of the sun are the two periods of his apparent course, the decrease and the growth, I should translate “the period is accomplished,” this period being that of the decrease after which the sun enters its ascending course, or according to Egyptian ideas begins again to grow. It is natural that the completing of the period should be hailed with joy by Rā, since it is the final victory over his enemies, which sets him free and allows him to rise again as at the beginning. The sign of his triumph is that he puts the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ on his head, as we see in the vignette. 1. Why this list of gods comes here, it is difficult to understand. It seems quite out of place. Their number varies according to the papyri. In some of them, they are put after the text in vertical columns. I presume they are the divinities often alluded to as _these gods_. They are the witnesses of the scene of Rā rising with the Eye on his head. 2. I have adopted the reading of the Paris papyrus, III, 58, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The vignettes consist, in the Turin papyrus, of the deceased worshipping a black Anubis lying down on a naos, and having on his back the sign ⁂. This god is the ⁂⁂ first mentioned. Behind him are the ⁂⁂⁂⁂, a human form with the Eye on its head, and Harmachis. Several papyri have only the Eye and Harmachis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XLIV. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTERS CXLI AND CXLII. =Berlin Mus., 2.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVI. =Leyden, No. II.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXL. LEPSIUS, Todtenbuch.] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVI. =Berlin Mus., No. 2.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVI. =Louvre, III, 1.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVI. =Leyden, No. VI.=] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XLV. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration] [Illustration: CHAPTERS CXLI AND CXLII. =Leyden Museum, No. VII.=] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XLVI. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLIII. LEPSIUS, Todtenbuch. ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVIII. =Louvre, III, 89.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVIII. =Leyden Mus., No. 11.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLIV. =Brit. Mus., 9913.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXLIV. =Brit. Mus. Pap. Brocklehurst II.= ]