CHAPTER CLIX. _The Chapter of the column of green Felspar,_(1.) _put on the neck of the deceased._ O thou who comest out every day, in the divine house, she who has a big voice, who goeth round.... She takes hold of the potent formulæ of her father, the mummy which is on the bull.(2.) She is Renent.... _Said on a column of green Felspar, on which this Chapter has been written, and which is put on the neck of the deceased._ NOTES. The vignette of this Chapter and the next, show distinctly that the ⁂ is a miniature column or tent-pole, with the papyrus capital, and papyrus leaves at the base. This Chapter is taken from the Turin text; parts of it are quite unintelligible. 1. ⁂⁂⁂, a mineral which has not yet been determined. Brugsch calls it “Opal.” Lepsius thought its colour was blue. Dr. Budge translates “mother-of-emerald.” Renouf’s translation is “green Felspar” (see Chapter 29B, note). 2. The mummy carried off by the Apis bull, a representation often seen on the coffins after the XXIInd dynasty. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLX. _Giving the column of green Felspar._ I am the column of green Felspar, which cannot be crushed,(1.) and which is raised by the hand of Thoth. Injury is an abomination for it. If it is safe, I am safe; if it is not injured, I am not injured; if it receives no cut, I receive no cut. Said by Thoth: arise, come in peace, lord of Heliopolis, lord who resides at Pu. When Shu has arrived, he found the stone at Shenemu, as its name is _neshem_. He (the deceased) makes his abode in the enclosure of the great god; whilst Tmu resides in his dwelling;(2.) his limbs will never be crushed. NOTES. For Chapter 160, we have a text from London, 9900 (_Aa_); it is not complete, but the gaps can very easily be filled up from the Papyrus Busca. The vignette of _Aa_ represents Thoth bringing the column, enclosed in a box or a casket. 1. I suppose the symbolical expressions of this Chapter mean that the _neshem_, of which the column is made, is a very hard stone, which is proof against any injury. ⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂, which I translated “crush,” means probably “grind to powder,” and ⁂⁂, “to receive a cut,” means to be scratched or incised by a sculptor’s tool. The power of the amulet consists in making the body of the deceased as hard as _neshem_. 2. ⁂, a variant of ⁂ when it refers to Tmu (Nav., _Todt._, ch. XVII, l. 12). ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXI. _The Chapter of unfastening the opening in the sky. Thoth does it so that it may be finished when he opens (the sky) with Aten._(1.) Rā(2.) is living, the tortoise(3.) is dead. The body has been offered in the earth; the bones have been offered of _N._ [The West wind of Isis].(4.)