, which is here a common noun rather than a proper name.

[7.] The deceased addresses his heart, and thereupon speaks in the first person plural, we; that is you and I.

[8.] The Ministrants. The

were high officials in the Egyptian court, but here they minister to Osiris in the Netherworld. They are apparently the same gods who are addressed in the 27th Chapter as fashioning the heart of a person according to his deeds when living.

[9.] The determinative