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completed my journey. I am like unto you. I have come forth by day.
I have advanced on my legs. I have gained the master over [my]
footsteps. [Hail, ye] Spirit-souls! I, even I, do know the hidden
roads and the Gates of Sekhet Aaru. I live there. Verily, I, even I,
have come, I have overthrown my enemies upon the earth, although my
body lieth a mummy in the tomb.
APPENDIX
APPENDIX
RUBRIC: (Naville, op. cit., II, Bl. 202)
If this Chapter be known by the deceased, he shall enter in after he
hath come forth by day.
RUBRIC: (Saite Recension)
If this Chapter be known by the deceased, he shall come forth by day
from Khert-Neter, and he shall go [again] after he hath come forth. If
this Chapter be not known [by the deceased], he shall not go in
again after he hath come forth [and he] shall not know [how] to come
forth by day.
[THE CHAPTER] OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A HAWK OF GOLD.
The Osiris Ani saith:- I have risen up out of the seshett chamber,
like the golden hawk which cometh forth from his egg. I fly, I
alight like a hawk with a back of seven cubits, and the wings of which
are like unto the mother-of-emerald of the South. I have come forth
from the Sektet Boat, and my heart hath been brought unto me from
the mountain of the East. I have alighted on the Atet Boat, and
there have been brought unto me those who dwelt in their substance,
and they bowed in homage before me. I have risen, I have gathered
myself together like a beautiful golden hawk, with the head of the
Benu, and Ra hath entered in [to hear my speech]. I have taken my seat
among the great gods, [the children of] Nut. I have settled myself,
the Sekhet-hetepet (the Field of Offerings) is before me. I eat
therein, I become a Spirit-soul therein, I am supplied with food in
abundance therein, as much as I desire. The Grain-god (Nepra) hath
given unto me food for my throat, and I am master over myself and over
the attributes of my head.
[THE CHAPTER OF] MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A DIVINE HAWK. The
Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, thou Great God, come thou to Tetu. Make
thou ready for me the ways, and let me go round [to visit] my thrones.
I have laboured. I have made myself perfect. O grant thou that I may
be held in fear. Create thou awe of me. Let the gods of the Tuat be
afraid of me, and let them fight for me in their halls. Permit not
thou to come nigh unto me him that would attack me, or would injure me
in the House of Darkness. Cover over the helpless one, hide him. Let
do likewise the gods who hearken unto the word [of truth], the Khepriu
gods who are in the following of Osiris. Hold ye your peace then, O ye
gods, whilst the God holdeth speech with me, he who listeneth to the
truth. I speak unto him my words. Osiris, grant thou that that which
cometh forth from thy mouth may circulate to me. Let me see thine
own Form. Let thy Souls envelop me. Grant thou that I may come
forth, and that I may be master of my legs, and let me live there like
Nebertcher upon his throne. Let the gods of the Tuat hold me in
fear, and let them fight for me in their halls. Grant thou that I
may move forward with him and with the Ariu gods, and let me be firmly
stablished on my pedestal like the Lord of Life. Let me be in the
company of Isis, the goddess, and let [the gods] keep me safe from him
that would do an injury unto me. Let none come to see the helpless
one. May I advance, and may I come to the Henti boundaries of the sky.
Let me address words to Keb, and let me make supplicaion to the god Hu
with Nebertcher. Let the gods of the Tuat be afraid of me, and let
them fight for me in their halls. Let them see that thou hast provided
me with food for the festival. I am one of those Spirit-souls who
dwell in the Light-god. I have made my form in his Form, when he
cometh to Tetu. I am a Spirit-body among his Spirit-bodies; he shall
speak unto thee the things [which concern] me. Would that he would
cause me to be held in fear! Would that he would create [in them]
awe of me! Let the gods of the Tuat be afraid of me, and let them
fight for me [in their halls]. I, even I, am a Spirit-soul, a
dweller in the Light-god, whose form hath been created in divine
flesh. I am one of those Spirit-souls who dwell in the Light-god,
who were created by Tem himself, and who exist in the blossoms of
his Eye. He hath made to exist, he hath made glorious, and he hath
magnified their faces during their existence with him. Behold, he is
Alone in Nu. They acclaim him when he cometh forth from the horizon,
and the gods and the Spirit-souls who have come into being with him
ascribe fear unto him.
I am one of the worms which have been created by the Eye of the Lord
One. And behold, when as yet Isis had not given birth to Horus, I
was flourishing, and I had waxed old, and had become pre-eminent among
the Spirit-souls who had come into being with him. I rose up like a
divine hawk, and Horus endowed me with a Spirit-body with his soul, so
that [I] might take possession of the property of Osiris in the
Tuat. He shall say to the twin Lion-gods for me, the Chief of the
House of the Nemes Crown, the Dweller in his cavern: Get thee back
to the heights of heaven, for behold, inasmuch as thou art a
Spirit-body with the creations of Horus, the Nemes Crown shall not
be to thee: [but] thou shalt have speech even to the uttermost
limits of the heavens. I, the warder, took possession of the
property of Horus [which belonged] to Osiris in the Tuat, and Horus
repeated to me what his father Osiris had said unto him in the years
[past], on the days of his burial. Give thou to me the Nemes Crown,
say the twin Lion-gods for me. Advance thou, come along the road of
heaven, and look upon those who dwell in the uttermost limits of the
horizon. The gods of the Tuat shall hold thee in fear, and they
shall fight for thee in their halls. The god Auhet belongeth to
them. All the gods who guard the shrine of the Lord One are smitten
with terror at [my] words.
Hail, saith the god who is exalted upon his coffer to me! He hath
bound on the Nemes Crown, [by] the decree of the twin Lion-gods. The
god Aahet hath made a way for me. I am exalted [on the coffer], the
twin Lion-gods have bound the Nemes Crown on me and my two locks of
hair are given unto me. He hath stablished for me my heart by his
own flesh, and by his great, two-fold strength, and I shall not fall
headlong before Shu. I am Hetep, the Lord of the two Uraei-goddesses
who are to be adored. I know the Light-god, his winds are in my
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