CXLVIII. and CLXXXIX. were composed; the

idea of the ka being obliged to wander about starving and in search of food was so abhorrent to the pious Egyptian that every text which could in any wise help to secure sufficient meat and drink for it was gladly copied over and over again.
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The object of Chapters IV., LXXIV., CXVII., CXIX., was to enable the deceased to walk about at will, and to roam through Re-stau, or the passages of the tomb and underworld, and when his way was stopped by Apep, Chapter VII. enabled him to pass over the back of the fiend. The union of the soul with the body was provided for by Chapter LXXXIX., as was the escape of the soul and the shade from the bonds of the tomb by Chapters XCI. and XCII. Though the deceased had no wish to go to the east in the underworld (see Chap. XCIII.) he, nevertheless, wished to visit the celestial Abydos; a successful journey to this city was secured by the use of