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BOOK OF ȦM-ṬUAT

of the South, Net, or Neith, goddess of the North, and the goat goddess Ārtet,

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. The two hawk-headed gods are called Tchatui,

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, and Meṭi,

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, and the four following gods Ābenti,

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, Benbeti,

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, Sekhti, and Sekhet(?),

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.

The explanation of this scene is given by the horizontal line of hieroglyphic text written above it, which reads:--

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"[The god cometh to] this Court, he passeth through it in the form of a ram, and he maketh his transformations therein. After he hath passed through this Court, the dead who are in his following do not [go with him], but they remain in this Court, and he speaketh