But the Sun-god is also called in his Litany[59] ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. And a picture of the god[60] under the name ⁂⁂⁂ exhibits him as characterized by a pair of hooked weapons, suggested apparently by the mandibles of a beetle. 6. _Stopped._ There are three important variants here ⁂, ⁂, and ⁂. And the last of these is possibly a corrupt reading from ⁂⁂. The first two are synonymous. ⁂ may in certain contexts mean _destroy_, but it only signifies ‘bring to a limit, to an end, stop,’ like the τερ in τερ-μα, _ter-min-o_. It is used in many cases, such as the staunching of blood, where no destruction is intended. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ is _stop in thy place_. 7. There is a picture in _Denkm._, III, 279, of the god who carrieth off with violence ⁂⁂⁂⁂. But it is a mummied form holding the _T’ām_ sceptre. 8. _Tablets_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. These are the tablets on which Thoth has written down the evidence taken at the _Weighing of the Words_, the examination at the Psychostasia. They are mentioned again at the end of Chapter 41. 9. Here I follow the general authority of the later texts. 10. _Sovereign Lord_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂. This word is closely connected, and was so from the first, with ⁂ ‘seize.’ The best commentary upon it may be derived from the legal terms _usucapio_, _saisine_, _seisin_. The Sovereign Lord of Egypt is in our current legal phrase “_seized_ of the Two Earths,” that is of the whole Universe, North and South. ----- Footnote 57: There is a lacuna here in the only MS. containing the text. The dialogue continues through the next line of the original. Footnote 58: Naville, _La Litanie du Soleil_, p. 49 and 55, with the plates corresponding. Footnote 59: In the 64th invocation. Footnote 60: Lefébure Tombeau de Seti I, pl. XVII. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XLI. _Chapter whereby one avoideth the Slaughter which is carried out in the Netherworld._ O Tmu, let me be glorified in presence of the god in Lion form, the great god; that he may open to me the gate of Seb. I prostrate myself to earth to the great god who is in the Netherworld. Let me be introduced into the presence of the company of gods who preside over those who are in Amenta. O thou who art at the gate of Tebat; god with the Red Crown,(1.) who art in Amenta; let me feed, let me live by the breath of air and accompany the great Cleaver,(2.) and the Bark of Chepera. Let me speak to the divine Boatman at the gloaming, let me enter in and let me go out; that I may see who is there; that I may raise him up and speak my words to him. O Breathless one:(3.) Let me live and be saved after death. O thou Bearer of peace offerings, who openest thy mouth for the presentation of the tablets,(4.) for the acceptation(5.) of the offerings and for the establishment of Maāt upon her throne; let the tablets be brought forward, and let the goddess be firmly established.