This is on the copy which is in the books(9.). It is written in yellow ink, on the sacred circle of gods in the boat of Rā(10.), where offerings are made of victuals, geese, incense, in their presence, in order to revive the deceased, to make him powerful among the gods, and that he may not be repulsed nor driven back from the pylons of the Tuat. If thou readest it to the statue of this deceased in their presence, it causes him to have access to every hall of those which are in the books. This is said at the entrance of every gate, of those which are in the books, and to each of them an offering is made of the haunch, the head, the heart, and the hoof of a red bull, and four vases of blood which does not come from the heart, and scent vases, and sixteen pointed white loaves, and eight round loaves, and eight _chenfu_ loaves, and eight _hebennu_ loaves, eight casks of beer, eight vases of dry corn, four tanks of earthenware filled with the milk of a white cow, fresh herbs, fresh olive oil, green eye paint, antimony, odoriferous oils, and burning incense. Said while putting on a clay seal twice. After this copy has been read, if the fourth hour is going round in the day, beware of what is threatening in the sky; but if thou hast read this book without any human being seeing it, it will widen the steps of the deceased in heaven or earth, and in the Tuat; because this book exalts the deceased more than any ceremony performed to him, henceforth, from this day undeviatingly for times infinite. NOTES. This chapter is the first of a series of four (144-147), in which the old versions differ considerably from the Turin text. 144 and 147 refer to the ⁂⁂⁂, 145 and 146 to the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The word ⁂⁂⁂ has been translated in various ways. Brugsch calls them “watch-towers, pylons,” Pierret “stations.” Maspero considers them as the old “ergastules,” a kind of vaulted hall. Jéquier speaks of them as “magazines,” but generally translates the word by “pylons.” Renouf, in his introduction to the Papyrus of Ani, calls the ⁂⁂⁂ “gates,” and the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “pylons.” In another place he says the ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is not a mere gate, but a _hold_ or _keep_. If we refer to the old texts where this chapter is mixed together with chapter 146, we see that the ⁂⁂⁂ is a door, a gate, which has to be passed in order to reach the ⁂⁂⁂⁂. Behind each ⁂⁂⁂ a ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is represented as a shrine close to which is its god. And also in the book called ⁂⁂⁂, _the book of what is in the Tuat_, we see that Rā has to go through the ⁂⁂⁂ and make a long navigation before he reaches the gods of the Tuat.