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highest heaven the house of Osiris is entered only by seven 
pylons, each guarded by an urseus, or sacred asp ; the name of 
the first guardian being “ Snt or Set of the second, “ Fire- 
face ; of the third, “ Vigilant of the fourth, “ Stopper of 
Fig. 80. The serpent warder of the gateway of the path of the sun ; behind 
are Horus-Ra, and possibly the serpent Ranno. (Sar. Oimen.) 
many Words of the fifth, “ Consumer"; the sixth, “Stone- 
face ) and of the seventh, “ Stopper of the Rejected/* — all 
epithets applied to the snake, and sometimes even to Apophis. 
The next abode of Osiris has twenty-one gates, each containing 
a different deity (the eighth being a double snake-headed god), 
armed with swords to destroy the impious intruder. Each of 
these in turn the Osirian supplicates ; and by each he is bidden 
to pass on, for “thou art justified/'’ Next is approached 
another abode, entered through fifteen pylons, each surmounted 
by one, two, or more snakes armed as before, whose names, 
and that of the snakes, are as follows : — 1. Mistress of Terror, 
and the snake “ Vulture”; 2. Mistress of Heaven, and the 
snake “ born of Pthah " ; 3. Mistress of Altars, and the snake 
Figs. 81, 82. Two more of the mistresses, the lion- and. cow-headed respectively. 
Fig. 81. “Her name is Skab the Fig. 82. “ Her name is Sehneka, or 
Subduer.” Beater of the Bulls.” 
“Subduer ” (fig. 81); 4. Hard-man, regeat of earth, and the 
snake “ Bull-smiter ” (fig. 82) ; 5. Fire, mistress of the breath of 
the nostril, and the snake “Retainer of theProfane”; 6.Mistress 
