Nepra hath given to me my throat, and I am in possession of all that pertaineth to my person.([3])
Notes.
[1.] This is the first of a series of chapters relative to the “Transformations,” the subject of which is treated in the Introduction. It is sufficient here to repeat that the Egyptian ‘Transformations’ have nothing in common with Metempsychosis, as understood in the Greek or Indian religions. The change of form in the Egyptian idea depended upon the will of the person; it was not a penance for sin, but a means of glorification. And all the forms assumed in the Book of the Dead by the deceased are well known forms of the Sun-god.
[2.] Green gem of the South
. This has generally been understood as representing the green feldspar of which many objects in our museums are made. But Dümichen (Zeitschr., 1872) has shown that the