2. In many places it is important to treat _Maât_ as a proper name. 3. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ , a word not confined to agricultural operations. See note 20, p. 8. 4. As the sun, who is represented as an infant at dawn and as an aged man at sunset. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XIII. _Chapter for entering after coming out from Amenta._ I enter as a Hawk and come forth as a Bennu(1.) at Dawn. Let the way be made for me that I may adore Râ at the fair Amenta, and the locks(2.) of Osiris. I urge on the hounds of Horus. Let the way be made for me that I may adore Osiris, the Lord of Life. NOTES. This chapter, in the MSS. of which the Turin copy is the type, is repeated as Chapter 121, with the following rubric:— “Said over an ear-ring of the flower Ânch-amu, put upon the right ear of the deceased person, with another ear-ring, put in fine linen, upon which is written the name of _N_, on the day of burial.” 1. The Bennu is a bird of the Heron kind. He is very commonly but, I think, erroneously identified with the Phoenix. The bird described by Herodotus, II, 73, was in outline and size “very like an eagle,” which no one could say of the Bennu. He appeared only once in five hundred years, whereas the Bennu appeared every day. The fable as told by the Greeks is utterly unsupported by any Egyptian authority known to us. 2. This passage is, unfortunately, both in the ancient and the recent forms, corrupt. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XIV. _Chapter for removing displeasure from the heart of the god against the deceased person._ Hail to thee, oh god who sendest forth(1.) the Moment, who presidest over all the Secret things(2.), and protectest the utterance of my words. Here(3.) is a god displeased against me; let wrong be overwhelmed and let it fall upon the hands of the Lord of Law. Remove(4.) the impediments which are in me and the evil and the darkness(5.), oh Lord of Law, and let that god be reconciled to me, removing that which detaineth me from thee. Oh, lord of offerings in Kenu(6.), let me offer to thee the propitiary offering by which thou livest, and let me live by it and be reconciled. Let all the displeasure which is in thy heart against me be removed. NOTES. There is a very great difference between the earlier and the later texts of this chapter. Former translators, having chiefly the Turin text before them, have understood the title of the chapter as intended “to remove the impurities from the heart of the deceased person.” The Turin text of the chapter is really unintelligible, and even in the earlier texts certain passages are so corrupt as to defy translation. 1. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ like the Latin ‘mittere’ has the sense of “let go, give free course, set at liberty.”