The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

to be passed in order to reach the ⁂⁂⁂⁂. Behind each ⁂⁂⁂ a ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is represented as a shrine close to which is its god. And also in the book called ⁂⁂⁂, _the book of what is in the Tuat_, we see that Rā has to go through the ⁂⁂⁂ and make a long navigation before he reaches the gods of the Tuat. 144 and 147 are two different versions of the same chapter, and no old papyrus has them both. It is the same with chapters 145 and 146. Evidently before the Saitic period, for these chapters, as for the 15th, there was no received text, and the writers had the choice between various versions which the compilers of the Turin text collected together. There are seven ⁂⁂⁂, and the deceased who approaches them has to know three names; first, the ⁂⁂⁂⁂ ⁂⁂⁂ whom Renouf calls _the porter_, evidently from his being styled in chapter 147 ⁂⁂⁂⁂. But if we consider that in some of the old papyri the name of the man is that of the gate itself, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ has to be translated _he who belongs to_, the occupant, the inhabitant, a sense which does not disagree with the word ⁂⁂⁂⁂ since, according to Oriental customs, the master of a house is generally met with at the door, at the entrance. The _doorkeeper_, the _watcher_ (Budge), or the _warder_ (Renouf), is the second person, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _he who guards the gate_. The third person ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, as the text says reports to Osiris every day the things of the world, and I suppose also, who is coming towards the gate. Renouf calls this person _the teller_. I shall use the word _herald_, which I adopted previously. In the six old texts which I collated, we find only the reciting of the three names. The Papyrus of Nu in the British Museum alone contains the allocution to the gates of the Turin text. It is therefore from the Papyrus of Nu that this chapter has been translated. (Budge, _The Book of the Dead_.)