Akar, we have to imagine a tunnel starting from the spot where the sun sets, and extending through the earth as far as where the sun rises. Each end of the tunnel has a sphinx-like form. A human-headed lion stands at the entrance and also at the terminus. It is through the paws of this double sphinx that the galley of the Sungod enters on the Western horizon and comes out on the Eastern.
In the picture Plate [XV], taken from the tomb of Rameses IV,
, Fair Entrance, is written at one end of the tunnel;
, Fair Exit, at the other. As the solar bark could not be represented inside the dark tunnel, it is placed above.
[3.] The proof. Lit. the taste,
