flight of steps; the legend
reads: "The great company of the gods who are in Sekhet-hetep."

15. The boat Tchetetfet, with eight oars, four at the bows, and four
at the stern, floating at the end of a canal; in it is a flight of
steps. The place where it lies is called the "Domain of Neth."

16. Two Pools, the names of which are illegible. The scene as given in
the Papyrus of Ani [Footnote: Brit. Mus., No. 10,470, Plate 35] gives
some interesting variants and may be described thus:--

1. Ani making an offering before a hare-headed god, a snake-headed
god, and a bull-headed god; behind him stand his wife Thuthu and
Thoth holding his reed and palette. Ani paddling a boat. Ani
addressing a hawk, before which are a table of offerings, a statue,
three ovals, and the legend, "Being at peace in the Field, and
having air for the nostrils."

2. Ani reaping corn, Ani driving the oxen which tread out the corn;
Ani addressing (_or_ adoring) a Bennu bird perched on a stand; Ani
seated holding the _kherp_ sceptre; a heap of red and a heap of
white corn; three KAU and three KHU, which are perhaps to be read,
"the food of the spirits;" and three Pools.

3. Ani ploughing a field near a stream which contains [Illustration:
The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani
(XVIIIth dynasty).] neither fish, nor serpents, nor worms of any
kind whatsoever.

4. The birthplace of the "god of the city;" an island on which is a
flight of steps; a region called the "place of the spirits" who are
seven cubits high, where the wheat is three cubits high, and where
the S[=A]HU, or spiritual bodies, reap it; the region Ashet, the god
who dwelleth therein being Un-nefer (_i.e._, a form of Osiris); a
boat with eight oars lying at the end of a canal; and a boat
floating on a canal. The name of the first boat is Behutu-tcheser,
and that of the second Tohefau.

So far we have seen that in heaven and in the world beyond the grave the
deceased has found only divine beings, and the doubles, and the souls,
and the spirits, and the spiritual bodies of the blessed; but no
reference has been made to the possibility of the dead recognizing each
other, or being able to continue the friendships or relationships which
they had when upon earth. In the Sekhet-Aaru the case is, however,
different, for there we have reason to believe relation