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unable to move, and has not yet acquired the use of bis limbs, 
it is necessary to address the gods, wbo successively restore 
all the faculties be possessed during life, so that be can stand 
upright, walk, speak, eat, and fight against the serpent 
Apopbis, and bis adherents. This process occupies chapters 
xxi. to xxix., which form the section called the “ Reconstruc- 
tion of the deceased.” Osiris opens his mouth, gives him 
power to speak, restores his mind, &c. ; and thus prepared 
he starts ; he holds the pectoral scarabeus over his heart as a 
talisman, and then triumphantly passes from the gates of 
Hades, exclaiming as he does so : “I flourish upon earth ; 
I never die in the west; I flourish as a spirit there for 
ever” (chap. xxx.). , „ 
18. From the first step, however, the actual conflict ot 
the soul begins; terrible obstacles present themselves m 
its way ; frightful Apophic monsters, servants of Typhon, 
crocodiles on land and in water, serpents of all kinds, tortoises, 
and other reptiles, more wild and terrible than Fuseli ever 
imagined, or Breughel drew, assail the deceased, and attempt 
to devour him. 
Fiff 66 The Osirian repelling the crocodiles in Amenti. (Sharpe, from the 
* Todtenbok by Lepsius.) 
19. First approaches the crocodile of Seb (fig. 66), whom he 
apostrophizes thus : — 
« Stop, go back, 0 crocodile, from coming to me. I know thee by my 
spells. Thou darest not speak the name of the great God* because I myself 
have come. I perceive, I prevail, I judge ; I have defended myself ; I have 
sat in the birthplace of Osiris ; born with him, I renew myself like him. 
Bunsen’s translation, chap. xxxi. . 
“ Back, crocodile Hem, back, crocodile Shui. Come not against me. i 
# The mystic name of deity among the Greeks, or the Tetragrammaton, 
was likewis Jnot allowed to be uttered. The J ews have a similar notion con- 
cerning the word mnb which they asserted enabled Jesus to perform all h 
miracles, by stealing the pronunciation of it from the high priest while 
playing in the temple area. 
