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adoring Ra.
Chapter XVB. 2. A Hymn of praise to Ra-Harmachis when he setteth in the western horizon of heaven.
Vignette: The deceased adoring Ra.
Chapter XVB. 3. Another hidden Chapter of the tuat, and of passing through the secret places of the
underworld, and of seeing the Disk when he setteth in Amentet.
Vignette: The god or the deceased spearing a serpent.
Chapter XVIA. [No text: being only a vignette.]
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Theban version: list of chapters.
Scene of the worship of the rising sun by mythological beings.
Chapter XVIB. Without title or text.
Vignette: Scene of the worship of the setting sun by mythological beings.
Chapter XVII. Here begin the praises and glorifyings of coming out from, and going into, the underworld
in the beautiful Amenta; of coming out by day, and of making transformations and of changing into any
form which he pleaseth; of playing at draughts in the seh chamber; and of coming forth in the form of a
living soul: to be said by the deceased after his death.
Vignette: The deceased playing at draughts; the deceased adoring the lion-gods of yesterday and to-day;
the bier of Osiris with Isis and Nephthys at the foot and head respectively; and a number of mythological
beings referred to in the text.
Chapter XVIII. Without title.
Vignette: The deceased adoring the groups of gods belonging to various cities.
Chapter XIX.* The Chapter of the crown(?) of victory.
This Chapter has no vignette.
Chapter XX. Without title.
This Chapter has no vignette.
Chapter XXI.* The Chapter of giving a mouth to a man in the underworld.
This Chapter has no vignette.
Chapter XXII. The Chapter of giving a mouth to the deceased in the underworld.
Vignette: The guardian of the scales touching the mouth of the deceased.
Chapter XXIII. The Chapter of opening the mouth of the deceased in the underworld.
Vignette: The sem priest touching the mouth of the deceased with the instrument ###.
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