Part 6 (2/2)
[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 15).]
THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE SOUL OF A MAN BE TAKEN FROM HIM IN THE UNDERWORLD. Osiris, the Scribe Ani, saith:
”I, even I, am he who came forth from the water-flood which I make to overflow, and which becometh mighty as the river [Nile].”
Of Drinking Water
[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (British Museum No. 9,900, sheet 4).]
THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. The scribe Nebseni ...
saith:
”May be opened [to me] the mighty flood by Osiris, and may the abyss of water be opened [to me] by Tehuti-Hapi, the lord of the horizon, in my name of 'Opener.' May there be granted [to me] mastery over the water-courses as over the members of Set. I go forth into heaven. I am the Lion-G.o.d Ra. I am the Bull. [I] have eaten the Thigh, and I have divided the carca.s.s. I have gone round about among the islands (or lakes) of Sekhet-Aaru. Indefinite time, without beginning and without end, hath been given to me; I inherit eternity, and everlastingness hath been bestowed upon me.”
The last three chapters, with a single vignette, are grouped in one in the Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 72); but the order of them as there given is 61, 60, 62. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. cit., Bl. 23) the vignette of each is the same, _i.e._, the deceased holding a sail in his left hand.
Of Drinking Water
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 7).]
THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER AND OF NOT BEING BURNT BY FIRE [IN THE UNDERWORLD]. The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:
”Hail, Bull of Amentet! I am brought unto thee, I am the oar of Ra wherewith he ferried over the divine aged ones; let me neither be burnt up nor destroyed by fire. I am Bet, the first-born son of Osiris, who doth meet every G.o.d within his Eye in Annu. I am the divine Heir, the exalted one(?), the Mighty One, the Resting One. I have made my name to germinate, I have delivered [it], and thou shalt live through me day by day.”
Preservation From Scalding
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 12).]
THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING SCALDED WITH WATER. The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:
”I am the oar made ready for rowing, wherewith Ra transported the boat containing the divine ancestors, and lifted up the moist emanations of Osiris from the Lake of Fire, and he was not burned. I lie down like a divine _Khu_, [and like] Khnemu who dwelleth among lions. Come, break away the restraints from him that pa.s.seth by the side of this path, and let me come forth by it.”
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