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Millions of arms touch me, pure spirits approach me, evil- 
doers and all enemies avoid me ; I live as I wished. Let him 
explain it. ,} It may a little clear off the obscurity of the 
preceding* passages to quote, from another papyrus, “ The 
soul, which dies like Osiris, rises again like the sun (Ra).” * 
16. After the chapter on faith, follow a series of prayers 
to be pronounced during the process of embalming, whilst the 
body is being enveloped in its wrappers. These invocations 
are addressed to Thoth, who, as among the Greeks, performed 
the office of psychopompe, or conductor of souls. Throughout 
these are continual references to the mythic contest between 
Osiris and his half-brother Typhon, or Apophis, whom, by the 
assistance of his son, the mediator Horus, he finally over- 
comes, not however till he has himself upon this world been 
slain and dismembered by his opponent. Here, as elsewhere, 
Fig. 65. Head Of the goddess Typho, deity of gestation; with the usual feminine 
urseus. (Bunsen.) 
Apophis, the great serpent, represents Typhon (fig. 65) as the evil 
principle, and the deceased implores, or rather the embalming 
priests do for him, that Thoth will assist him to assume the 
character of Horus, “the avenger of his father,” that “his 
heart may be filled with delight, and his house be at peace 
before the head of the universal lord.” To this petition the 
deity responds, “ Let him go ”; and the rubric adds : “ This 
chapter being said, a person comes pure from the day he has 
been laid out, making all the transmigrations to place his 
heart. Should this chapter (have been attended to by him),t 
he (proceeds from above the earth,) he comes forth from all 
flame ; no evil thing approaches him in pure clothes for mil- 
lions of ages.” 
17. The body once wrapped in its coverings, and the soul 
well provided with a store of necessary knowledge, and able 
further to repeat and to explain the principles of the Egyptian 
faith, the deceased commences his journey; but as he is still 
* Pierret, Dogme de la Resurrection. 1871. 
1" Should this chapter have been inscribed or repeated over him.” — Le 
Page Renouf. Or, “ He goes forth upon the earth.”— Id. 
