The Book of Gates: The Book of Gates: Chapter VII. The Judgment Hall of Osiris. The Sixth Division of the Tuat.
THE boat of Ra having passed through the Fifth Division of the Tuat arrives at the gateway which leads to the SIXTH DIVISION, or, as the text says: "This god cometh forth to this pylon, and he passeth in through it, and those gods who are in the secret place acclaim him." The gateway is guarded by twelve bearded mummy forms, who are described as the "gods and goddesses who are in this pylon," and it is called NEBT-AHA. The gate which admits to the Sixth Division resembles those already described; at the entrance to the corridor and at its exit stands a bearded mummied form, the former being called MAA-AB, and the latter SHETA-AB. These names mean "Right (or, true) of heart" and THE JUDGMENT HALL OF OSIRIS.
THE SIXTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT.
Between the gate which leads into the SIXTH DIVISION and the Division itself we find inserted a remarkable scene, which may be thus described:--In the upper part, from one side to another, a line is drawn, which is intended to represent the roof of the shrine or canopy in which the god is seated, and on it rests a row of kakheru, i.e., spear-head ornaments. From the inside of the roof hang, upside down, four heads of some kind of horned animal. These are called Hahaiu, and are supposed to be heads of gazelle 1 or oxen. In the space between the spear-head ornaments and the side of the Tuat is written The transliteration of these characters appears to be Ser her Tuat sath then; the meaning of the first three
This inscription is in the so-called "enigmatic" writing, 1 a fact which was first noticed by Champollion, but a transcript of it exists on the sarcophagus of Tchehra in characters which have the ordinary values, 2 and this reads as follows:--
The text which refers to Anubis Mr. Goodwin transcribed:--"Hail, O ye who make to be maat the word of your little one, may Thoth weigh the words, may he make to eat his father." Immediately over the boat is the short inscription which Goodwin renders by, "[When] this god entereth, he (i.e., the Ape) riseth and putteth under restraint AM-A (i.e., the Eater of the Arm)." 1
I. "They, they hide those which are in the state of the elect. They the country [belonging to them, is Ameh in the land. Behold, these are they whose heads issue. What a mystery is their appearance, [the appearance] of your images!" II. "The examination of the words takes place, and he strikes down wickedness, he who has a just heart, he who bears the words in the scales, in the divine place of the examination of the mystery of mysteries of the spirits. The god who rises has made his infernal [companions] all." For purposes of comparison, the versions of the texts from the tomb of Rameses VI., as given by Champollion (Monuments, pl. 252) are given. It will be noted that a part of the line immediately over the head of Osiris, given in different places in the latter scene, is immediately in front of the double crown of Osiris, and is immediately in front of the sceptre of the god.
160:1 "Têtes de gazelles" (Champollion, Monuments, tom. ii., p. 495). 161:1 Sharp, Inscriptions, part ii., pl. 9. 162:1 See Goodwin, Aeg. Zeit., 1873, p. 138; Renouf, ibid., 1874, p. 101; and Champollion, Monuments, pl. 272. 162:2 Lefébure renders, "O ye who bring the word just or false to me, he, Thoth, examines the words" (Records of the Past, vol. x., p. 114). 163:1 The diver [when] this god rises, he gives up [the pig] to the plagues" (Lefébure, op. cit., p. 114). 164:1 See also Champollion, Monuments, tom. ii., p. 490. 166:1 Records of The Past, vol. x., p. 114.
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