All these stars are supposed as divinities to aid in the navigation of the Bark of Rā. The Egyptians could not have had a correct planetary theory (which only became possible through Kepler), but they understood at least that the motions of the planets were _regular_, and that they depended upon the Sun. Eudoxus is reported to have derived the data for his theory from his Egyptian instructors. 4. Instead of Rā the name of Sut is found in the later texts. Bekenrenef has ⁂⁂. 5. _Septu_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂, the ‘armed,’ one of the Solar appellations, already found in the Pyramid texts (_Unas_, 281). He appears in chapter 130, 7, in connection with the block of execution. 6. The text is here hopelessly corrupt. M. Pierret has ‘offrande,’ which he most probably derives from ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂, a reading found in some papyri. But _Ba_, our oldest authority, has ⁂⁂, and Bekenrenef has ⁂⁂⁂⁂. The Turin copy has ⁂; and the context does not help us. Of these four readings (and there are probably others which I do not know) that of Bekenrenef seems to me the best; but ⁂ has so many possible applications that I will not venture to suggest one. 7. [I am Tmu.] These words are not in _Ba_, but they occur in all other copies, and the omission of the divine name which stops the crocodile is an evident fault. The chapter ends here, and what follows is an addition for which our earliest authority is that of Bekenrenef. But even this text is already corrupt, and requires to be corrected by more recent ones. ----- Footnote 50: ⁂⁂⁂⁂ as a feminine noun and proper name occurs in the Pyramid Texts (Unas, 644). Footnote 51: Brugsch has produced excellent evidence for the supposition that ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ signifies _the two turnings_ of the Sun, that is at the solstices, ⁂⁂ being the southern solstice and ⁂⁂ the northern. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXXIII. _Chapter whereby all Serpents are kept back._ Oh serpent Rerek, advance not! Here are the gods Seb and Shu! Stop! or thou shalt eat the rat which Rā execrateth, and gnaw the bones of a putrid she-cat. NOTE. This chapter is often found in coffins. There is a chapter much resembling it in the tomb of Horhotep (line 364), at least as regards the opening words. It addresses Rerek and tells him that Shu and another deity are coming, and that the speaker is Horus. No allusion, however, is made to the dead rat and cat. These typify the impurities and abominations to which the damned are liable in the world to come. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XXXIV. _Chapter whereby a person is not devoured by the dweller in the shrine._(1.) O Uræus! I am the Flame which shineth, and which openeth out eternity,(2.) the column of Tenpua(3.) [_otherwise said_—the column on which are blossoming plants.]