CHAPTER XCV.
Chapter whereby is opened the place wherein Thoth resteth.
I am the Dread one([1]) in Storm, who guard the Great one([2]) against assault.
I smite like the Flint-god: I sprinkle like the Sprinkling-god.([3])
I am the protection([4]) of the Great one against assault and I give vigour to the sword which is in the hand of Thoth([5]) in the storm.
Notes.
The papyrus Ad gives this chapter the title of “assuming the form of the Smen-goose,” and Dr. Birch published the text of this papyrus in the Zeitschrift of 1869 (p. 25) as one of those additional chapters which “do not occur in the Ritual of Turin.” This is of course an error of oversight. This chapter is in the Turin Todtenbuch, and the papyrus Ad merely gives it under an erroneous title, which was evidently meant for another text.
[1.] The Dread one,
