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of Generations, and the snake “ Conspirator ; * 7. the Gate 
of Enin, and the snake “Destroyer”; 8. Gate onnextinguishrd . 
Fire, and the snake “ Protector of the Sacred Bye , i 
tress of Limbo (figs. 83, 84,8ft), and- the snake Pride ^ , 10. 
Gate of Loud Words, and the snake Great Clasper 11. 
Gate of Hard-face, and the snake “ Ternfier ; 12. Gate ot the 
The Mistresses or Doorkeepers of Amenti, with the great Urseus above. 
(Ritual, cap. cxlv-vi.) 
84. “Her name isHan-nekah, 
or Commanding the idle.’ 
85. “Her name is Mes-' 
Pthah, or born of Pthah.” 
Questioner of Earth ; 13. Gate of Isis ? 14. Mistress of Exult- 
ation ; 15. Gate of Souls of the Red-haired. The names of 
the snakes of the four last gates are not given. To these abodes 
succeed (chap, cxlviii.) seven staircases, wios ®J" ardl “® 1 J 1 the 
the same names as the snakes of the seven gates. Then the 
Osirian passes to the fourteen abodes of Elysium, in t 
fourth of which, “ on the very high hill in Hades, the heave 
rests upon it,” occurs a “ snake— Sati is 
J * 
his name. He is 
Fig. 86. Ruhak, the great charmer whom the sun has made. (Ritual cap. exlix.) 
about seventy cubits in his coil, and he lives by decapitating 
the condemned.”! In the seventh abode dwells a similar 
snak e°— “ Ruhak is its name (fig. 87) . He is about seven cubits 
* Is this an allusion to the Indo-Germanic myth of the coimectmn between 
life and fire 1 — See Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Nations , and Ke y, 
exoneration of the great African rock-snake [Python regia) 
who by the way^femhles in a remarkable degree the Egyptian figures of 
Apophis. 
