CHAPTER XXXIV.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No, 10,477, sheet 6). ]
Vignette ; This Chapter is without a vignette in the Theban and Saite Recensions.
Text: (1) THE CHaArreR OF Nor [LETTING] OsIRIS NU, TRIUMPHANT, BE BITTEN BY SNAKES (07 WORMS) IN THE UNDERWORLD. (2) He saith :—
“© Serpent! I am the flame which shineth upon the “Opener (?) of hundreds of thousands of years, and the “standard of the god Tenpu,” or (as others say), “ the “standard of young plants and flowers. Depart ye (3) “from me, for I am the divine Maftet.”?!
! So far back as 1867 the late Dr. Birch identified the animal maftet with the lynx.
160 AGAINST DEATH BY SERPENTS (Chap. xxxv.