Egyptian Book of the Dead

CHAPTER CLXVI.

340 CHAPTER CLXVI. Chapter of the Pillow. Awake! thy sufferings are allayed, N. Thou art awaked when thy head is above the horizon. Stand up, thou art triumphant by means of what has been done to thee. Ptah has struck down thine enemies. It has been ordered what should be done to thee. Thou( 1 ) art Horus, the son of Hathor, the flame born of a flame( 2 ), to whom his head has been restored after it had been cut off. Thy head will never be taken from thee henceforth. Thy head will never be carried away. Notes. With Chapter 166 begins a series of chapters which are not in the Todtenbuch, and which have been collected from various papyri. For most of them there is only one text, therefore the translation is often very uncertain. This Chapter, which is taken from London 9900 ( Aa ), seems to be only a variant, with a few additional sentences, of Chapter 43, “Chapter whereby the head of a person is not severed from him in the Netherworld.” It alludes to the reconstitution of the body of the deceased, and to providing him with all his sepulchral equipment. Head-rests like that which is represented in the vignette are often found in the tombs with the coffins already at the time of the XIth dynasty. Chapter 166 was first discovered and translated by Dr. Birch ( Zeitschr. , 1868, p. 82). 1. Here begin the words of Chapter 43. 2. [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] . The second word should be taken as a patronymic, “flame-born.” Chapter 43 has [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] .