, as the text says reports to Osiris every day the things of the world, and I suppose also, who is coming towards the gate. Renouf calls this person the teller. I shall use the word herald, which I adopted previously.
In the six old texts which I collated, we find only the reciting of the three names. The Papyrus of Nu in the British Museum alone contains the allocution to the gates of the Turin text. It is therefore from the Papyrus of Nu that this chapter has been translated. (Budge, The Book of the Dead.)
[1.] The title is taken from Papyrus Ax. The Turin text calls this chapter “the chapter of knowing the occupants of the seven gates.”
[2.] A flame, judging from the determinative
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