Chapter XII: Chapter for entering and for coming forth out of the Netherworld

Salutation to thee, O Râ, who guardest the secrets of the gates(1.) over this domain of Seb, and this Balance with which Râ raiseth up Maât (2.) daily:

Here am I, who cleave open(3.) the earth, grant that I may come and acquire advance in age.(4.)

NOTES.

This chapter, like the next, occurs only in _Pa_ among the older MSS. It comes twice in the Turin copy, being repeated as Chapter 120.

1. So _Pa_; the Turin copy has ‘the Tuat.’

2. In many places it is important to treat _Maât_ as a proper name.

3. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ , a word not confined to agricultural operations. See note 20, p. 8.

4. As the sun, who is represented as an infant at dawn and as an aged man at sunset.

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