Footnote 2: The "double," or the vital force.]

Herutataf then held out his hands to the sage and helped him to rise
from the bed, and he went with him to the river bank, Teta leaning on
his arm. When they arrived there Teta asked for a boat wherein his
children and his books might be placed, and the prince put at his
disposal two boats, with crews complete; Teta himself, however, was
accommodated in the prince's boat and sailed with him. When they came to
the palace, Prince Herutataf went into the presence of the king to
announce their arrival, and said to him, "O king my lord, I have brought
Teta"; and His Majesty replied, "Bring him in quickly." Then the king
went out into the large hall of his palace, and Teta was led into the
presence. His Majesty said, "How is it, Teta, that I have never seen
thee?" And Teta answered, "Only the man who is summoned to the presence
comes; so soon as the king summoned me I came." His Majesty asked him,
saying, "Is it indeed true, as is asserted, that thou knowest how to
rejoin to its body the head which hath been cut off?" Teta answered,
"Most assuredly do I know how to do this, O king my lord." His Majesty
said, "Let them bring in from the prison a prisoner, so that his
death-sentence may be carried out." Then Teta said, "Let them not bring
a man, O king my lord. Perhaps it may be ordered that the head shall be
cut off some other living creature." So a goose was brought to him, and
he cut off its head, and laid the body of the goose on the west side of
the hall, and its head on the east side. Then Teta recited certain
magical spells, and the goose stood up and waddled towards its head, and
its head moved towards its body. When the body and the head came close
together, the head leaped on to the body, and the goose stood up on its
legs and cackled.

Then a goose of another kind called _khetaa_ was brought to Teta, and he
did with it as he had done with the other goose. His Majesty next caused
an ox to be taken to Teta, and when he had cut off its head, and recited
magical spells over the head and the body, the head rejoined itself to
the body, and the ox stood up on its feet. A lion was next brought to
Teta, and when he had recited spells over it, the lion went behind him,
and followed him [like a dog], and the rope with which he had been tied
up trailed on the ground behind the animal.

King Khufu then said to Teta, "Is it true what they say that thou
knowest the numbers of the Ap