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Chapter XXXIII. The Chapter of repulsing reptiles of all kinds.
Vignette: The deceased attacking four snakes with a knife in each hand.
Chapter XXXIV. The Chapter of a man not being bitten by a serpent in the hall of the tomb.[3]
This Chapter has no vignette.
Chapter XXXV. The Chapter of not being eaten by worms in the underworld.
[1. Two variants (Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I., Bl. 38) show the deceased sitting before his heart, and the deceased
presenting his heart to a triad of gods.
2. Or the deceased adoring his heart; see also Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I., Bl. 42.
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Vignette: Three serpents.
Theban version: list of chapters.
Chapter XXXVI. The Chapter of repulsing the tortoise. (apsai).
Vignette: The deceased spearing a beetle.[1]
Chapter XXXVII. The Chapter of repulsing the two merti.
Vignette: Two uræi, which represent the two eyes of Ra.
Chapter XXXVIIIA. The Chapter of living upon the air which is in the underworld.
Vignette: The deceased holding a sail, emblematic of air.
Chapter XXXVIIIB. The Chapter of living upon air and of repulsing the two merti.
Vignette: The deceased attacking three serpents, a knife in his right hand and a sail in his left.
Chapter XXXIX. The Chapter of repulsing the serpent in the underworld.
Vignette: The deceased spearing a serpent.
Chapter XL. The Chapter of repulsing the eater of the ass.
Vignette: The deceased spearing a serpent which is biting the neck of all ass.
Chapter XLI. The Chapter of doing away with the wounding of the eyes in the underworld.
Vignette: The deceased holding a knife in the right hand and a roll in the left.
Chapter XLII. [The Chapter] of doing away with slaughter in Suten-henen. Vignette: A man holding a
serpent.[2]
Chapter XLIII. The Chapter of not allowing the head of a man to be cut off from him in the underworld.
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