1. The explanation to this extraordinary title seems to be given in the last sentence of the rubric, where it is said of the deceased: “he drinks the running water of the stream, he shines like a star in the sky.” The amulet for which this text was written will prevent the deceased, who is to be as bright as a star, from having his light taken from him, from being obscured. The other blessing conferred upon him is that of drinking water of the stream. It is difficult to say why these two blessings alone are mentioned. 2. I am ready to utter the names of thy different forms, and I see thy various colours. 3. That his body may be reconstituted. It is curious to find in so late texts a vague remembrance of what seems to have been the prevalent custom in prehistoric times, and perhaps also during the Thinite period: the dismemberment of the body of the deceased. This custom was so entirely superseded by the opposite process, the mummification and the careful preservation of the body, that the old tradition is always mentioned with horror and disgust. The Book of the Dead is full of objurgations against the dismemberment of the body. 4. The Turin _Todtenbuch_ ends here. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXVI. _Chapter of the Pillow._ Awake! thy sufferings are allayed, _N._ Thou art awaked when thy head is above the horizon. Stand up, thou art triumphant by means of what has been done to thee. Ptah has struck down thine enemies. It has been ordered what should be done to thee. Thou(1.) art Horus, the son of Hathor, the flame born of a flame(2.), to whom his head has been restored after it had been cut off. Thy head will never be taken from thee henceforth. Thy head will never be carried away. NOTES. With Chapter 166 begins a series of chapters which are not in the Todtenbuch, and which have been collected from various papyri. For most of them there is only one text, therefore the translation is often very uncertain. This Chapter, which is taken from London 9900 (_Aa_), seems to be only a variant, with a few additional sentences, of Chapter 43, “Chapter whereby the head of a person is not severed from him in the Netherworld.” It alludes to the reconstitution of the body of the deceased, and to providing him with all his sepulchral equipment. Head-rests like that which is represented in the vignette are often found in the tombs with the coffins already at the time of the XIth dynasty. Chapter 166 was first discovered and translated by Dr. Birch (_Zeitschr._, 1868, p. 82). 1. Here begin the words of Chapter 43. 2. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The second word should be taken as a patronymic, “flame-born.” Chapter 43 has ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXVII. _Chapter of bringing an Eye._