The Egyptian Book of the dead

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victim of Sutu, who inflicted a wound on his eye, which caused him great suffering, and the text adds: ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, _lo! he ate his heart_. Renouf translates, “and wrath devoured h...

(1.)_The Beginning of the Chapters of Coming forth by Day, of the_ (2.)_Words which bring about Resurrection and Glory, and of Coming out of and entering into Amenta. Said upon...

1. The title here translated is that usual in all the papyri representing the third period of the text. It occurs however in the papyrus _Ag_ of Huneferu, who lived in the days...

learned editor calls 1 B. This chapter is found in so very few copies that the text cannot as yet be restored. The two texts published by M. Naville differ widely from each othe...

Oh thou Only One,(1.) who shinest from the Moon, let me come forth amid that train(2.) of thine, at large,(3.) and let me be revealed(4.) as one of those in glory.(5.)

_Here the helmsman_: As Râ is born from Yesterday, so he too is born from Yesterday, and as every god exulteth in life, so shall _N_ exult even as they exult in life.

1. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, literally ‘weeping,’ ‘flood of tears,’ hence ‘overflow, inundation, stream or canal.’ It is one of the names of the Nile on earth and in heaven and of his personificati...

2. ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ are two divinities in opposition or contrast, like Set and Horus (Chapter 17, 25) or the sister goddesses named ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Mertȧ_ (37, 1). Thoth is the umpire between...

Here is _N_. He saith, I am he who raiseth the hand which is motionless, and I come forth at the hour.(2.) I am the living Soul,(3.) and there go before me the longings(4.) of t...

O Statuette(1.) there! Should I be called and appointed to do any of the labours that are done in the Netherworld by a person according to his abilities, lo! all obstacles have...

Oh, One of Wax,(1.) who takest captive and seizest with violence, and livest upon those who are motionless! Let me not become motionless before thee, let me not be paralysed bef...

I am that Osiris, the Lord of Amenta, and Osiris knoweth his day, and that it is in his lot that he should end his being, and be no more.(3.)

I cleave the heaven, I open the horizon and I travel over the earth on foot. There come forward to me the Glorious and the Great ones, for I am furnished with numberless Words o...

I rise up like Horus, I sit down as Ptah, I am victorious as Thoth, and powerful as Tmu: I walk upon my feet, I speak with my mouth, searching for him who hath been given up to...

“Said over an ear-ring of the flower Ânch-amu, put upon the right ear of the deceased person, with another ear-ring, put in fine linen, upon which is written the name of _N_, on...

Here(3.) is a god displeased against me; let wrong be overwhelmed and let it fall upon the hands of the Lord of Law. Remove(4.) the impediments which are in me and the evil and...

O thou radiant Orb, who arisest each day from the Horizon, shine thou upon the face of the Osiris _N_ who adoreth thee at dawn, and propitiateth thee at the gloaming.

In _a_ the Sun is represented as rising into Heaven, saluted by the six Cynocephalous Apes. He is also saluted by two goddesses kneeling. In the Papyrus of Hunefer these goddess...

=Who is that? It is Osiris who presideth over the account of all that is and all that cometh into being, that is Endless Time and Eternity. Endless Time is Day and Eternity is N...

The seventeenth chapter is one of the most remarkable in the whole collection, and it has been preserved from times previous to the XIIth dynasty. The very earliest monuments wh...

The later recensions add an interpolation (not without very different readings) to the effect that the Sun made his first appearance when Shu raised the Sky from the height of C...

I come to you, ye Great Circles of gods(2.) in Heaven, upon Earth and in the World below! I bring to you _N_ void of offence towards any of the gods, grant that he may be with y...

Thy Father Tmu hath prepared for thee this beautiful Crown of Triumph, the living diadem which the gods love, that thou mayest live for ever. Osiris, Prince of Amenta, maketh th...

The twentieth chapter is entitled _Another Chapter of Crown of Triumph_, but it is simply a tabulated form of chapter 18, with the Rubric. _Let the person say this Chapter, and...

The oldest papyrus containing this chapter is that of Ani, and the translation is based upon it. But the text differs both from those written on the very ancient coffins of Heru...

I shine forth out of the Egg which is in the unseen world.(1.) Let there be given my mouth that I may speak with it in presence of the great god, Lord of the Tuat. Let not my ha...

1. The Egg in the unseen world is the globe of the Sun while yet below the horizon. It is only through a mistranslation of chapter 54, 2 that the Indian notion of a ‘Mundane Egg...

Then let Thoth come, full and equipped with Words of Power,[35] and let him loose the muzzles of Sutu which are upon my mouth, and let Tmu lend a hand to fling them at the assai...

Lo, I bring this my Word of Power, and I collect this Word of Power from every quarter in which it is, more persistently(3.) than hounds of chase and more swiftly than the Light.

Let my name be given to me in the Great House. Let me remember my name in the House of Flame(1.) on the Night wherein the Years are counted and the Months are reckoned, one by one.

Let me have my Heart that it may rest within me; but(2.) I shall feed upon the food of Osiris, on the eastern side of the mead of amaranthine flowers.(3.)

O ye gods who seize upon Hearts, and who pluck out the Whole Heart; and whose hands fashion anew the Heart of a person according to what he hath done; lo now, let that be forgiv...

I have had granted to it and awarded to it the glow of heart at the hour of the god of the Broad Face, and have offered the sacrificial cakes in Hermopolis.

Back thou Messenger(1.) of thy god! Art thou come to carry off by violence(2.) this Whole Heart of mine, of the Living XYZZY(3.) But I shall not surrender to thee this Heart of...

I utter(2.) that Name of the great god, who granteth that two of his Messengers[49] should come; the name of one is Batta(3.), and the name of the other is _Thine Aspect is Fixe...

O Son who conversest with thy father, do thou protect this Great one from these four(2.) crocodiles here who devour the dead and live by the Words of Power.

This chapter is often found in coffins. There is a chapter much resembling it in the tomb of Horhotep (line 364), at least as regards the opening words. It addresses Rerek and t...

1. It is not possible to say what is here actually meant by ⁂⁂⁂ _ḥat._ Every word almost in this tiny chapter was a puzzle to the Egyptian scribes, who altered the text in a hun...

The eyes of the Great One are bent down, and he doth for thee the work of cleansing;(5.) marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues.(6.)

Away from me, thou with parted lips! I am Chnemu, the Lord of Shennu, who am bringing the words of the gods to Rā. And I announce the news to Nebes.

Those who are in their cells(2.) accompany me as guides. I have made my way and gone round the heavenly Ocean on the path of the Bark of Râ, and standing on the girders[52] of t...

Back! down with thee, stabber(1.) from Apepi! Drown in the lake of Heaven, in the spot wherein thy father ordered that thy murder should be carried out. Away from this birth-pla...

Back, serpent Haiu,(1.) whom Osiris execrateth. May Thoth cut off thy head, and may there accrue to me whatsoever property proceedeth from thee [according to] what was decreed a...

10. _Sovereign Lord_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂. This word is closely connected, and was so from the first, with ⁂ ‘seize.’ The best commentary upon it may be derived from the legal terms _usucapio_,...

I prostrate myself to earth to the great god who is in the Netherworld. Let me be introduced into the presence of the company of gods who preside over those who are in Amenta.

As regards my attributes: I hasten headlong, I the god Unen,[61] with all that pertaineth to me, hour proceeding from hour, the One proceeding from the One, in my course.

6. _The god within the Tamarisk._ The rising sun under his various names is frequently represented as being in a tree or bush, which partly conceals him. This is a mythological...

Let the Cavern of Putrata(1.) be opened for me, where the dead fall into the darkness, but the Eye of Horus supporteth me, and Apuat reareth me up. I hide myself among you, O ye...

Here is the Osiris _N._, motionless, motionless like Osiris; motionless his limbs like Osiris—let them not remain motionless, let them not corrupt. They move not, they stir not:...

Oh ye recent offspring of Shu, who dawn after dawn is possessor of his diadem at sunrise; ye future generations of men, my springing forth[64] is the springing forth of Osiris.

The fastenings of the hinder part of my head were fastened by Sutu and the company of gods in his first triumph. Let there be no disaster. Preserve me safe from him who slew my...

The Chapters numbered 51 and 52 are not found in the most ancient papyri, but the substance of them and their formulas are met with on the ancient coffins[65] and in the Pyramid...

Henceforth let me live upon corn(2.) in your presence, ye gods, and let there come one who bringeth to me that I may feed from those seven loaves which he hath brought for Horus...

I am the god in Lion-form(1.), the Egg in the Great Cackler, and I watch over that great Egg which Seb hath parted from the earth(2.); my Life is the Life thereof, and the same...

I am the Jackal of jackals, I am Shu, who convey breezes, in presence of the Glorious one(1.), to the ends of the sky, to the ends of the earth, to the ends of the filaments of...

O thou great Coverer(3.) of Heaven, in thy name of Stretcher(4.) [of Heaven], grant that I may have the command of water, even as Sut hath command of force(5.) on the night of t...

1. _Turn away then._ Merta as we have seen is the name given to the goddess pair Isis and Nephthys. It is therefore not possible to account for the masculine pronoun ⁂ as having...

It is I who hold that abode which is in Heracleopolis, I watch over that Egg of the Great Cackler. My strength is the strength thereof, my life the life thereof, and my breath t...

Let the doors of Heaven be open to me, let the doors of Kabhu be thrown wide to me; by Thoth and by Hapi, the great Coverer of Heaven, at daybreak.

Let the Great One be opened to Osiris; let the Kabhu be thrown wide to Thoth, the Coverer, Lord of the Horizon in his name of the Divider of the Earth.

I am Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow, for I am born again and again; mine is the unseen Force,(1.) which createth the gods and giveth food to those in the Tuat(2.) at the West...

death of Osiris, of his mutilation, mummification and burial. Prescriptions for carrying it out are found in the great text at Denderah, published by Dümichen and Mariette, and...

Oh thou who shinest forth from the Moon, thou who givest light from the Moon, let me come forth at large amid thy train, let me be revealed as one of those in glory. Let the Tua...

I am Horus, who proceedeth from the Eye of Horus; I am Uat’it, and I come forth like the Hawk which soareth aloft and resteth upon the brow of Rā at the prow of his Bark in Heaven.

Let the caverns of Shu be opened, that he may come forth at large, and that I may issue from my funereal pit to my seat which is at the prow of the Bark of Rā; let me issue with...

Let the two doors of Heaven be opened to me: let the two doors of Earth be opened to me: let the bolts of Seb open to me, and let the First Mansion be opened to me, that he may...

I am Osiris, brother to Isis. He who avengeth me is my son Horus, in company with his mother, upon mine adversaries; adversaries who have done to me all wicked and evil things.

I have come to an end(7.) for the Lord of Heaven. I am written down as sound of heart, and I rest at the table of my father Osiris, King of Tattu, and my heart is stirred by his...

I am the Hawk in the Southern Heaven, and Thoth in the Northern Heaven, who appease the Flame when raging and who convey Law to the god who loveth it.

Hail to you, ye Lords of Rule,(2.) devoid of Wrong, who are living for ever, and whose secular period is Eternity.(3.) I make my way towards you. Let me be glorified through my...

This constellation, according to chapter 98, is in the Northern sky and in the _Great Stream_ ⁂⁂⁂, by which I understand the “Milky Way.” This position is also in accordance wit...

I have come out of the Tuat: I am come from the ends of the Earth, lighting up the Tank, whither the desires of them who bring salutation guide me. I pass through the noble dwel...

1. _The Bird-Fly_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. On this god, see _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, 1892, p. 396 and following, and also 1893, p. 135 and following. In the papyrus of Nebseni the name has for...

I set myself to view: I set myself to view as the Golden Hawk, which cometh out from its Egg; and I fly and I hover as a Hawk of four cubits across the back. My two wings are of...

Look thou upon me and exalt me, impart to me Terror, and rouse in me Might, so that the gods of the Tuat may fear me, that their battlements war in my behalf there; and that _he...

Hail to thee, Tmu, Lord of Heaven, who givest motion to all things which come into being; thou who comest forth from the Earth and createst whatsoever is begotten: Lord of the t...

It is I who complete the vesture of Nu, the Light which shineth before him, lighting up the darkness. I unite with the two brother-gods who are upon me through the mighty Words...

I am the pure Lotus which cometh forth from the glory which is at the nostril of Rā, and I make my journey and pursue it for Horus, the great god beloved.

Let me therefore live upon that which is put before them; the gods and the glorified ones. Let me live and enjoy the bread and....[90] Let me then eat them in the presence of th...

I am the four Yesterdays of those seven Uræus deities who are born in Amenta; Horus who giveth light by means of his own body; the god who is against Sutu when Thoth is between...

It is my power which produceth victory and raiseth the height of heaven, and I make the lustrations which yield the extent of earth to my feet against the sinful cities as I adv...

I am a Soul. I am Rā who proceedeth from Nu, and my soul is divine. I am he who produceth food, but I execrate what is wrong and look not upon it.

O ye gods, whose perfume is delicious: Flame which proceedest from the Horizon: O thou who art in the place whence I have brought the keeper of his fold—let me have thine arm th...

_Se-ta_ ⁂⁂, literally _Filius terrae_, is a common noun signifying an earth-worm. It is applied to the Sun as rising out of the earth. There are several pictures at Denderah rep...

Oh thou who Bringest; Oh thou Runner, who dwellest in thy Keep,(1.) thou great god; grant that my Soul may come to me from whatsoever place wherein it abideth.

Oh thou who choppest off heads and cuttest throats, but restorest memory in the mouth of the dead through the Words of Power which they possess: thou seest me not with thine eye...

Oh thou who art exalted and worshipped, all powerful, almighty one, who grantest thy terrors to the gods, who displayest thyself upon thy throne of grandeur,(1.) let the way be...

That standeth open which thou openest, and that is closed which thou closest, oh thou who art at rest;(1.) thou openest and thou closest to my Soul, at the bidding of the Eye of...

If I am conveyed away, if I am carried off to the East; if all evil and injurious things of a feast day of fiends are perpetrated upon me through the waving of the Two Horns, th...

Here am I, I come and am glorified and filled with Soul and Power and provided with the writings of Thoth, which I bring in order to purify the tunnel which is in Sutu.(1.) I br...

The papyrus _Ad_ gives this chapter the title of “assuming the form of the Smen-goose,” and Dr. Birch published the text of this papyrus in the _Zeitschrift_ of 1869 (p. 25) as...

I am he who dwelleth in the middle of his own Eye. I have come that I may deliver Maāt to Rā, and may propitiate Sutu with the libations for Akar and the red victims of the Fait...

Look therefore upon me, oh ye great and mighty gods, who are foremost among the Spirits of Annu; let me be exalted in your presence. I am a well-doer towards you. Lo I come, tha...

Oh thou Leg in the Northern Sky,(1.) and in that most conspicuous but inaccessible Stream; I rise up and come to light as a god, I am conspicuous but inaccessible.

Oh thou who sailest the ship of Nu over that chine which is void,(1.) let me sail the ship; let me fasten my tackle(2.) in peace; in peace! Come, come; Fleet one, Fleet one! Let...

Let me convey the divine Heron to the East, Osiris to Tattu. Let me open the caverns of Hāpu,(1.) clear the path of the Solar Orb and tow along Sekaru upon his sledge. Let the G...

O thou who art devoid of moisture in coming forth from the stream; and who restest upon the deck of thy Bark: as thou proceedest in the direction of Yesterday, and restest upon...

O Great One in thy Bark, let me be lifted into thy Bark. Let me make head for thy staircase. Let me have charge of those who convey thee, who are attached to thee, who are of th...

1. _Ahi_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, the _Striker_ is one of the names of Horus, who in the inscriptions of Benihassan is called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “Horus who striketh down men.” The notion of striking was in...

Let me sit in the midst of the great gods. Let me pass through the place of the Sektit boat. It is the Bird-fly deity(1.) that shall convey me to see the great gods who are in t...

For I am the green gem, fresh at the throat of Rā, given by those who are at the Horizon: their freshness is my freshness [_said twice_], the freshness of my Ka is like theirs,...

Oh thou god of nutriment, oh great one who presidest over the mansions on high; [to whom bread cometh from Annu] ye who give bread to Ptah [from Annu], give me bread and beer: l...

Now, at the close of day(5.) he turneth down his eyes to Rā; for there cometh a standing still in the Bark and a deep slumber within the ship. And now he swalloweth three cubits...

7. _Thy head is veiled._ The ‘veiling of the head,’ and ‘closing of the eyes’ of the sun are of course mythological terms for night time. But the mythological event was celebrat...

round the heaven whilst thou art pierced with hooks,” as if Rā were replying to the words of Sutu. This, I confess, appears to me to offer a better sense than that of chapter 10...

I know that Eastern Gate of Heaven (the South of it is by the lake of Cha-ru, and the north of it by the stream of Reu), from whence Rā saileth with favouring gales.(1.)

Oh thou of corpselike form who art in Chait and Ânpit;(2.) thou goddess of the Net,(3.) who art in Pu; ye who preside over the untilled lands, ye stars and constellations(4.)......

I know the Mystery of Nechen: Horus, and that which his mother did(2.) for him, when she herself uttered the cry: “Let Sebak, the Lord of the Marshes, be brought to us.”

I am come as a messenger of Rā, to make fast Maāt upon the Arm, for the dawning of Neith at Ment’ait, and for restoring the Eye to him who taketh the reckoning thereof.

A personage kneeling behind is supporting the feather of Maāt. The words ⁂⁂⁂, which are written by way of explanation, might give rise to some misunderstanding were it not for c...

Two brethren came into being: they were Heb-rā and Sotemanes, whose arm resteth not; and he assumed the form of a female with a lock, which became the Lock in Heliopolis.

Hail, ye gods who are in Hermopolis. Know ye me as I know Neith, that the Eye may be made firm and permanent. I take delight in reckoning out that which is reckoned.

_The Beginning of the Chapters of the Garden of Hotepit, and of the Chapters of coming forth by day; and of entering and coming forth in the Netherworld, and of arriving at the...

dissimilation of _rr_ into _nr_). The usual form in later times is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, but we find even shorter forms in ⁂⁂, B.M. 32, and ⁂⁂⁂. The determinative ⁂ of a reptile, indicates a _...

16. _Userit_ ⁂⁂⁂ is one of the commonest appellatives of Isis, especially in the later texts. The names of all these abodes, situated in that region of the sky where the sun ris...

[Osiris is made triumphant over his adversaries, and the Osiris _N_ is made triumphant over his adversaries, and is as one of you, his patron(7.) is the Lord of Eternity: he wal...

7. _Patron_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, a word supposed by some scholars to signify uncle. It occurs on funereal monuments among the designations of persons connected with the deceased, such as bro...

Glory is given to me by those who are in their mummied forms in Pu, at the sanctuary of Osiris, whom the guards(1.) receive at Restau when they conduct Osiris through the demesn...

Osiris raiseth thee up in thy power and in thy might. Osiris raiseth thee up in thy power in Restau, and in thy might in Abydos, that thou mayest go round heaven with Rā, and su...

I am free from obstruction; and I come that thou mayest see me in the house where I repeat the ancient ordinances and words, as a guidance wherewith thou shalt guide posterity.(2.)

I approach it not with my hands; I tread not upon it with my sandals; for my bread is of the white corn and my beer of the red corn of the Nile.

I am come to thee, oh my Lord: I have brought myself that I may look upon thy glory. I know thee, and I know the name of the Forty-two gods who make their appearance with thee i...

Hail ye gods, I know you and I know your names; let me not be stricken down by your blows: report not the evil which is in me to the god whom ye follow. Let not reverse(32.) of...

For the significance of this most important chapter with reference to the religion and ethics of ancient Egypt I must refer to the Introduction. The notes in this place must be...

fifteenth of the month, cannot be full on the thirtieth. It must be the other Eye, the Sun. Now we know what is meant by the Full Moon, the Plenilunium, but what is the Full Sun?

_Cf._ the passage (Rochemonteix, _Edfou_, p. 191) where mention is made of the divine powers which animate the Princes who are in the train of Osiris and who lift the Balance up...

Oh ye four Harbingers(1.) who sit at the prow of the Bark of Rā, and convey the fixed ordinances(2.) of the Inviolate One, ye who are judges of my distress(3.) and of my good fo...

_The Book_(1.) _for invoking the gods of the Bounds,_(2.) _which the person reciteth when he approacheth them, that he may enter and see the Strong one_(3.) _in the Great Abode...

⁂⁂⁂ at chapter 64, 23, is undoubtedly the _overflowing_, or _outpouring_. There are the reduplicated Coptic forms ϭⲉϣϭϣ and ϭⲉϣϭⲱϣ; and ϭⲉϣⲉ, a name of the _goose_, has its orig...

Hail to thee, Osiris Unneferu, son of Nut and eldest son of Seb: the Great One who proceedeth from Nut; the king in Taa-urit;(1.) the Prince in Amenta; the Lord of Abydos; the L...

_A Book whereby the Soul is made to live for ever, on the day of entering into the Bark of Rā, and to pass the Sheniu of the Tuat. Made on the Birthday of Osiris._(1.)

Oh Rā(2.) who art shining this night: if there be any one among thy followers, let him present himself living as a follower of Thoth, who causeth Horus to come forth this night.

1. _The Bow_, ⁂, often written with the determinative ⁂, of _stretching_, which is the conception implied in this name of the instrument. This mythological _Bow_, as I explained...

The Twinklers(3.) fall away from the Mount of Glory at the East of Heaven, at the voice of Nut as she buildeth up the paths of Rā, before the Ancient one who goeth round.

Hail to thee who art in the midst of thine Ark, Oh rising Sun who risest, and declining(1.) one who declinest: at whose will millions spring forth, as he turneth his face to the...

Osiris is enveloped in storm and rain: he is enveloped: but the fair Horus lendeth succour daily, the Lord of high attributes . . . (1.) he driveth off the storm from the face o...

Oh Light! let the Light be kindled for thy Ka, O Osiris Chentamenta. Let the Light be kindled for the Night which followeth the Day: the Eye of Horus which riseth at thy temple(...

Oh all ye gods who are in Abydos, [each one and his](1.) divine circle likewise in its entirety, who are coming with acclamation to meet me: let me see my father Osiris: let me...

During the last days of his life, the lamented Sir Peter Le Page Renouf, foreseeing that he would not be able to reach the goal he had been striving to attain, the completion of...

There rises a form which shines on the horizon. Atmu rises pouring out his dew, and the bright one who shines in the sky. The abode of the obelisk is in joy because of them, bec...

_The book(1.) said by a man or his father or his son in the festival of the Amenta, and wherewith he acquires might(2.) with Rā, and with the gods when he is with them. Said on...

The first gate. He whose face is overturned, who has many attributes, is the name of the occupant of the first gate. The adjuster, is the name of the warden thereof, and he with...

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 th...

8. ‘The steel firmament,’ ⁂⁂⁂⁂, generally mentioned in connection with storms and bad weather, so that possibly we have to consider here the colour of the metal, and translate ‘...

have no older copy of it than the fragments in the tomb of Meneptah Siphtah and queen Tauser, which give us only eleven pylons, with a very incorrect text. As for the Turin text...

The first gate. The name of the doorkeeper is: he whose face is overturned, who has many attributes. The name of its warder is: the adjuster. The name of the herald is: he with...

refers also to the seven gates; and whenever the deceased approaches one of the gates, he has to say the name of the doorkeeper, which, as we saw before, is that of the gate its...

Hail to thee who shinest as living soul, and who appearest on the horizon, _N._ who is in the boat knows thee; he knows thy name, he knows the names of the seven cows and of the...

The first domain. O this domain of the Amenta, where they live upon bread of the plant _tep seru_. Take off your head dress in my presence, for I am the great one among you, he...

This is not a separate chapter: it stands to 149 as 16 to 15. It consists of the vignettes accompanying Chapter 149, and it is the end of many papyri. Curiously, there are fifte...

Thy right eye is in the Sektit boat, thy left eye is in the Âtit boat. Thy eyebrows are with(1.) Anubis, thy fingers are with Thoth, thy locks are with Ptah Sokaris; they prepar...

funeral chamber. The four walls, which should be vertical, are drawn lying flat on the ground. In the middle of the chamber, under a canopy, is the mummy, on which Anubis lays h...

There is cheering, when it is seen that Seshait(2.) has come towards Seb; when Anubis has commanded to _N._: build a house on earth, the foundations of which be like On, and the...

O he who turns backwards, mighty of heart, who spreads his net before him, who entereth the earth! O you the fishermen sons of their fathers(2.), who go round in the midst of th...

Hail to thee, my father Osiris. I have come to embalm thee. Do thou embalm this flesh of mine, for I am perfect like my father Chepera, who is my image, he who does not know cor...

Here is thy backbone,(2.) thou still-heart! here is thy spine, thou still-heart! Put it close to thee. I have given thee the water thou wantest.(3.) Here it is. I have brought t...

The blood of Isis, the virtue of Isis; the magic power of Isis, the magic power of the Eye are protecting this the Great one; they prevent any wrong being done to him.

Isis has arrived; she hovers over the dwellings, and she searches all the hidden abodes of Horus when he comes out of the Northern marshes, knocking down him whose face is evil.

O thou who comest out every day, in the divine house, she who has a big voice, who goeth round.... She takes hold of the potent formulæ of her father, the mummy which is on the...

Injury is an abomination for it. If it is safe, I am safe; if it is not injured, I am not injured; if it receives no cut, I receive no cut.

_Everybody who has these figures on his coffin, the four openings of the sky are open to him; one in the North, it is the wind of Osiris; one in the South, it is the wind of Aah...

Hail to thee, thou lion,(2.) thou mighty one, with high plumes, the lord of the double crown, who wavest the flail, thou art the lord of the phallus,(3.) thou art vigorous when...

_Chapters brought from another book, in addition to the “coming forth by day.” Chapter of not letting the body of a man decay in the Netherworld, of rescuing him from the devour...

Hail, Sekhet, Bast, daughter of Rā, lady of the gods, who holdeth her fan of plumes, the lady of the scarlet garment, the mistress of the white and red crown, the only one who s...

Amon of the Ankak Takashar, Amon the sphinx is thy name. O Amon! I implore thee. Behold, I know thy name; thy forms are in my mouth,(2.) and thy colours in my eyes.

Ptah has struck down thine enemies. It has been ordered what should be done to thee. Thou(1.) art Horus, the son of Hathor, the flame born of a flame(2.), to whom his head has b...

When Thoth had brought the Eye, he appeased the Eye, After Rā had wounded(1.) her, she was raging furiously and then Thoth calmed her after she had gone away raging. As I am sou...

Dead, it belongs to another book similar to the ⁂⁂, the book engraved on the walls of the royal tombs. It describes gods and genii of ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _the bounds(1.) in the Tuat_ who conf...

Thou art a lion, thou art a sphinx, thou art Horus who avengeth his father; thou art these four gods, those glorious ones who are shouting for joy, who are making incantations,...

Thy limbs have been given thee, thou takest hold of thy bones, I have set for thee thy limbs; the earth is bent upon protecting thy flesh. Thou art Horus who was within the egg;...

O Tmu, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Sut, Nephthys, Horus of the two Horizons, Hathor in the great dwelling, Chepera, Mentu lord of Thebes, Amon lord of Nestaui, ye the g...

(1.) ... with _bet_ incense, I inhale the smell of natron and incense ... I have been purified ... through the sacred utterances coming out of my mouth. I am pure verily ... of...

_The addresses of Horus to his father when he goes in to see his father, and when he comes out of his great sanctuary to see him Rā Unneferu, the master of Ta-tser, and then the...

Hail to thee, the wise one, created by Seb, born of Nut. The cycles of the gods are at rest. Horus rests in his dwelling(2.), Tum rests in his abode (?). All the gods of East an...

O Thoth(1.)! What has become of the children of Nut? they have stirred up hostilities, they have raised storms, they have committed iniquit, they have raised rebellion, they hav...

For I have passed through the place of purification in the middle of the Meskat;(1.) the inviolate god has given me his glorious attributes on the day when the two Earths were u...

O Nut, Nut, who created the father out of his earth(1.) and Horus after him, who bound his wings as to a hawk and his feathers like Kemhesu,(2.) who brought him his soul, and wh...

Hail, Hunnu, lift up thy heart to purify thy body; they have eaten the eye of Horus, the olive of Heliopolis,(2.) they destroy (what is wrong) in the body of Osiris.

I am the sap coming out of its tree, I am the flow coming out of its form; for I stand before the lord of the white crown, I am gracious; my words are well established before th...

_Chapter of coming forth by day, of giving praise to Rā in the Amenta, of paying homage to the inhabitants of the Tuat, of opening the way to the mighty soul in the Netherworld,...

_Chapter of arriving before the Divine circle of Osiris and before the gods, the guides in the Tuat, before the guards of their halls,(1.) the heralds of their gates and the doo...

_Book of vivifying(1.) Osiris, of giving air to him whose heart is motionless, through the action of Thoth, who repels the enemies of Osiris who come there in his form(2.) ... a...

He grants that the morning light shine on thy body, he illuminateth thy path with his rays, he removeth all that is wrong in thy body by the virtue of his speech. He appeases th...

Hail to thee, venerable god, great and beneficent prince of eternity, in his abode in the Sektit boat. Acclamations are given him in the sky and on earth; he is exalted by the p...

A great many papyri end with a picture representing Hathor of the West, in company of the goddess Thueris coming out of the mountain where the burial is to take place. The text,...