6. The ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is evidently the stake or peg to which the end of the clap-net is fastened. But it must be noticed that in the vignette of London, 9900, this peg is a dagger. Therefore one may speak of its pointed head ⁂ (Brugsch, _Dict. Suppl._, p. 85), and of its ⁂⁂⁂, blade. 7. Nemu is perhaps a local name of Horus (Brugsch, _Dict. geog._, p. 71). 8. ⁂⁂⁂. “The god in Lion form” (Renouf) is the name of the Sphinx (_Sphinx_, Vol. V, p. 193). 9. See Chapter 149, note 5. 10. We know from an inscription at Dendereh that the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, the drinkers, feast on blood, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Brugsch, _Dict. Suppl._, p. 18). 11. The late recension of Chapter 153 ends here, and does not contain 153B. It is followed by this rubric: _Said on a figure of the deceased which is placed in a boat. Thou shalt put the Sektit boat on his right, and the Âtit boat on his left. Offerings will be made to him of cakes, beer, and all good things, on the day of the birth of Osiris. He to whom these things have been done will be a living soul for ever, and will not die a second time._ 12. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. I consider this word as derived from ⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂, which means to mark an object with a cut or with fire, for a religious purpose, or simply as an indication of property. A little further it is spoken of fishes ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “marked on the tail.” 13. We have here the opposition between ⁂⁂ “those who are,” and ⁂⁂ “those who are not,” that is, those who are not yet, the future ones. The negative, which often expresses the idea of anteriority, is one of the usual ways of rendering the future; that which has not yet taken place, which is to come. An official of the XIIth dynasty says: “the king ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ made me his commissioner of works, having charge of present and future work” (_Zeitschr._, 1882, p. 8, note). It is said of Isis that “she issues her directions for what is and what will be” ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Stèle Metternich, Brugsch, _Dict. Suppl._, p. 355). 14. See Chapter 1, note 8. 15. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. As they are sometimes mentioned before the gods, I believe the word might be translated, the first beings, the first creatures: “die Urwesen.” 16. Here begins the second version of the chapter which has been added to the other one. 17. ⁂⁂⁂⁂. This lake is often mentioned in the texts of the pyramids. It is one of the celestial lakes not very distant from the Elysian fields. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE LVI. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER 153B. =Louvre, III, 93.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER 154. LEPSIUS, “Todt.”] [Illustration: CHAPTERS 151, 155, 156. =Louvre, III, 89.=]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLIIIB. _The Chapter of escaping from the catchers of fish._ O ye snarers (?), O ye fowlers, O ye fishers, sons of their fathers, know ye(1.) what I do know, the name of this very great net: the embracer is its name.