d about many divine and
mythological beings. The reason for including it in the Book of the Dead
is not quite clear, but that it was a most important Chapter is beyond
all doubt. Chaps. 21 and 22 restored his mouth to the deceased, and
Chap. 23 enabled him to open it. Chap. 24 supplied him with words of
power, and Chap. 25 restored to him his memory. Chaps. 26-30B gave to
the deceased his heart, and supplied the spells that prevented the
stealers of hearts from carrying it off, or from injuring it in any way.
Two of these Chapters (29 and 30B) were cut upon amulets made in the
form of a human heart. Chaps. 31 and 32 are spells for driving away
crocodiles, and Chaps. 33-38, and 40 are spells against snakes and
serpents. Chaps. 41 and 42 preserved a man from slaughter in the Other
World, Chap. 43 enabled him to avoid decapitation, and Chap. 44
preserved him from the second death. Chaps. 45, 46, and 154 protected
the body from rot or decay and worms in the tomb. Chap. 50 saved the
deceased from the headsman in the Tuat, and Chap. 51 enabled him to
avoid stumbling. Chaps. 38, 52-60, and 62 ensured for him a supply of
air and water in the Tuat, and Chap. 63 protected him from drinking
boiling water there. Chaps. 64-74 gave him the power to leave the tomb,
to overthrow enemies, and to "come forth by day." Chaps. 76-89 enabled a
man to transform himself into the Light-god, the primeval soul of God,
the gods Ptah and Osiris, a golden hawk, a divine hawk, a lotus, a
_benu_ bird, a heron, a swallow, a serpent, a crocodile, and into any
being or thing he pleased. Chap. 89 enabled the soul of the deceased to
rejoin its body at pleasure, and Chaps. 91 and 92 secured the egress of
his soul and spirit from the tomb. Chaps. 94-97 made the deceased an
associate of Thoth, and Chaps. 98 and 99 secured for him the use of the
magical boat, and the services of the celestial ferryman, who would
ferry him across the river in the Tuat to the Island of Fire, in which
Osiris lived. Chaps. 101 and 102 provided access for him to the Boat of
Ra. Chaps. 108, 109, 112, and 116 enabled him to know the Souls (_i.e._
gods) of the East and West, and of the towns of Pe,[1] Nekhen,[2]
Khemenu,[3] and Anu.[4] Chaps. 117-119 enabled him to find his way
through Rastau, a part of the kingdom of Seker, the god of Death. Chap.
152 enabled him to build a house, and Chap. 132 gave him power to return
to the earth and see it. Chap. 153 provided for his escape from the