CHAPTER CLXVI.

_Chapter of the Pillow._


Awake! thy sufferings are allayed, _N._ Thou art awaked when thy head is
above the horizon. Stand up, thou art triumphant by means of what has
been done to thee.

Ptah has struck down thine enemies. It has been ordered what should be
done to thee. Thou(1.) art Horus, the son of Hathor, the flame born of a
flame(2.), to whom his head has been restored after it had been cut off.

Thy head will never be taken from thee henceforth.

Thy head will never be carried away.

NOTES.

With Chapter 166 begins a series of chapters which are not in the
Todtenbuch, and which have been collected from various papyri. For most
of them there is only one text, therefore the translation is often very
uncertain.

This Chapter, which is taken from London 9900 (_Aa_), seems to be only a
variant, with a few additional sentences, of Chapter 43, “Chapter
whereby the head of a person is not severed from him in the
Netherworld.” It alludes to the reconstitution of the body of the
deceased, and to providing him with all his sepulchral equipment.
Head-rests like that which is represented in the vignette are often
found in the tombs with the coffins already at the time of the XIth
dynasty.