Note 19 — Chapter XVII
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
This Devourer has the same functions as the strange animal called Âmemit in the pictures of the Psychostasia. The later scholia add that the Devourer comes from the ‘basin of Punit,’ the Red sea. They add other names, Mâtes ‘Flint,’ “stationed at the gate of Amenta,” and 49or Baba, who, in ch. 63, 2, is described as the first born of Osiris. He is a terrible god from whom the deceased prays in ch. 125, 36, to be delivered. His name implies ‘one who searches or probes thoroughly,’ as a digger or miner. And such are his functions at the judgment of the dead.
