CHAPTER CLVII.

_Chapter of the vulture of gold, put on the neck of the deceased._

Isis has arrived; she hovers over the dwellings, and she searches all

the hidden abodes of Horus when he comes out of the Northern marshes,

knocking down him whose face is evil.

She causes him to join the Bark, and grants him the sovereignty over the

worlds.

When he has fought a big fight, he decrees what must be done in his

honour; he causes fear of him to arise, and he creates terror.

His mother, the Great one, uses her protective power, which she has

handed over to Horus.

_Said on a vulture of gold. If this Chapter is written on it, it

protects the deceased, the powerful one, on the day of the funeral,

undeviatingly for times infinite._

NOTES.

This and the two following Chapters have not been found in the old

recension. They are taken from the Turin text.

The vignette represents a vulture with outspread wings, which is often

found made of cartonnage on the mummies. The same bird is often painted

on the ceilings of tombs or temples.

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