When wielded, this lenticular[79] disk fits to the hollow of the hand, the blade coming between the first and second fingers.

Of what use, it may be asked, were all these weapons to a woman-- and a dead woman?
To this we may reply that the other world was peopled with foes--Typhonian genii, serpents, gigantic scorpions, tortoises, monsters of every description--against which it was incessantly needful to do battle.

The poignards placed inside the coffin for the self-defence of the soul were useful only for fighting at close quarters; certain weapons of a projectile kind were therefore added, such as bows and arrows, boomerangs made in hard wood, and a battle-axe.

The handle of this axe is fashioned of cedar-wood covered with sheet gold (fig.

306).