When Thoth had brought the Eye, he appeased the Eye, After Rā had wounded(1.) her, she was raging furiously and then Thoth calmed her after she had gone away raging. As I am sound, she is sound and _N._ is sound. NOTES. This Chapter taken also from London 9900, is a mere abridgment of lines 30-34 in Chapter 17. It refers probably to an eclipse. The Eye, the moon is pierced or wounded by Rā, which causes the goddess to be furious. Then, according to Chapter 17, “Thoth calms her troubled state (Brugsch), and brings her whole and sound without any defect.” This is called to appease the goddess. 1. The correct reading according to Chapter 17, is: ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ Brugsch (_Dict. Suppl._, p. 751) translates the word: to pierce. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXVIII. Chapter 168 should not have been placed among those of the Book of the Dead, it belongs to another book similar to the ⁂⁂, the book engraved on the walls of the royal tombs. It describes gods and genii of ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _the bounds(1.) in the Tuat_ who confer certain blessings on the deceased; such as this: “those who lift up their faces towards the sky at the prow of the boat of Rā, grant that Osiris _N._ may see Rā when he rises.” A vignette gives the appearance of the god or genius spoken of. Every one of them is followed by this sentence: “for the libation of a vase has been made on earth by Osiris _N._ who is (now) the lord of abundance, and goes round the garden of Hotepit.” The three versions which have been preserved of this text are very fragmentary. The most complete, papyrus 10478 of the British Museum, contains only the ⁂⁂⁂ 7 to 12. As the interest of this text, the character of which is chiefly pictorial, lies in the vignettes, it has been thought unnecessary to give a translation of it. 1. See note 2, Chapter 127. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXIX. _Chapter of raising the funereal Bed._ Thou art a lion, thou art a sphinx, thou art Horus who avengeth his father; thou art these four gods, those glorious ones who are shouting for joy, who are making incantations, and who bring out water by the power of the tramp of their feet. Thou risest on the right, thou risest on the left. Seb has opened thy blind eyes,(1.) he has loosened thy legs which were fettered. Thou hast received thy heart of thy mother, thy whole heart of thy own body; thy soul is in the sky, thy body is under the ground. There is bread for thy body, water for thy throat, sweet breeze for thy nostrils. Thou restest in their funereal chambers, which those who are in their coffins have opened for thee and for thy ... when thou journeyest; thou art firm on thy pedestal, of thy existence, thou appearest in heaven, and thou fastenest the tackle(2.) by the side of Rā.