_If this book is read on earth,(3.) he is not carried away by the messengers, the wicked ones who do evil on all the earth; and he will not be wounded, he will not die from the blow of the king. He will not be taken to prison; for he will go in to his attendants and go out victorious, he will be free from the fear of evil doers who are on the whole earth._ NOTES. This Chapter begins with a general title applying to 163-5, and probably to other ones not included in the papyrus of Turin: “Chapters brought from another book, an addition to the coming forth by day.” This means that these chapters were not considered as belonging to the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “the coming forth by day,” the original Book of the Dead, which in old times ended with Chapter 149, and later on with Chapter 162. The vignettes represent the figures described in the rubric for which the chapter was written. Dr. Pleyte first discovered that this Chapter is a kind of dialogue, consisting of words spoken by the god, and a prayer addressed to him in favour of the deceased. The strange names which occur in the text lead us here also to Africa, since it is said of the deceased that he resides in Apt of Nubia, Napata. 1. A papyrus, in Turin of a woman, reads here ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ etc., “thy duration is the duration of the ultimate circles.” 2. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Chuu_. Renouf either keeps the Egyptian word, or translates: “the Glorious ones, the Glorified.” See note 1, ch. 1, ch. 15, etc. 3. The amulet has also an influence on earth, it protects a man against hidden dangers, which arise not from men but from some invisible causes, and agents like those evil messengers, probably spirits, who might be called “angels.” I believe that ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “the blow of the king,” must mean some sudden illness like ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Dr. Pleyte also considers this part of the rubric as applying to a man’s life on earth; there is only this expression ⁂⁂⁂⁂ which does not agree with this explanation, and would rather lead us to think that what is described in this part of the rubric takes place in the other world. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXIV. _Another Chapter._ Hail, Sekhet, Bast, daughter of Rā, lady of the gods, who holdeth her fan of plumes, the lady of the scarlet garment, the mistress of the white and red crown, the only one who stands above her father, when there are no gods to stand above her; the great magician in the boat of millions of years, lofty when she rises in the abode of silence, the mother of the Shakas, the royal wife of the lion Haka. These are the forms of the princess, the mistress of the funereal chamber, the mother on the horizon of the sky, the joyful, the beloved, who destroyeth the rebels collected in her fist. She stands at the prow of the boat of her father, in order to strike down the evildoer, in order to place Maāt at the prow of the boat of Rā.