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Translated
by E.A. Wallis Budge
THE CHAPTER
OF COMING FORTH AGAINST ENEMIES IN KHERT-NETER. The Osiris Nu saith:-
Hail, Am-a-f (Eater of his arm), I have passed over the road. I am Ra.
I have come forth from the horizon against my enemies. I have not permitted
him to escape from me. I have stretched out my hand like that of the Lord
of the Urrt Crown. I have lifted up my feet even as the Uraei-goddesses
lift themselves up. I have not permitted the enemy [to be saved] from
me. As for mine enemy, he hath been given to me, and he shall not be delivered
from me. I stand up like Horus. I sit down like Ptah. I am strong like
Thoth. I am mighty like Tem. I walk with my legs. I speak with my mouth.
I chase my enemy. He hath been given unto me, and he shall not be delivered
from me.
A HYMN
OF PRAISE TO RA WHEN HE RISETH UPON THE HORIZON, AND WHEN HE SETTETH IN
THE LAND OF LIFE. Osiris the scribe Ani saith:- Homage to thee, O
Ra, when thou risest as Tem-Heru-Khuti. Thou art to be adored. Thy beauties
are before mine eyes, [thy] radiance is upon my body. Thou goest forth
to thy setting in the Sektet Boat with [fair] winds, and thy heart is
glad; the heart of the Matet Boat rejoiceth. Thou stridest over the heavens
in peace, and all thy foes are cast down; the stars which never rest sing
hymns of praise unto thee, and the stars which are imperishable glorify
thee as thou sinkest to rest in the horizon of Manu, O thou who art beautiful
at morn and at eve, O thou lord who livest, and art established, O my
Lord!
Homage to
thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest, and who art Tem when thou settest
in beauty. Thou risest and thou shinest on the back of thy mother [Nut],
O thou who art crowned the king of the gods! Nut welcometh thee, and payeth
homage unto thee, and Maat, the everlasting and never-changing goddess,
embraceth thee at noon and at eve. Thou stridest over the heavens, being
glad at heart, and the Lake of Testes is content. The Sebau-fiend hath
fallen to the ground, his fore-legs and his hind-legs have been hacked
off him, and the knife hath severed the joints of his back. Ra hath a
fair wind, and the Sektet Boat setteth out on its journey, and saileth
on until it cometh into port.
The gods
of the South, the gods of the North, the gods of the West, and the gods
of the East praise thee, O thou Divine Substance, from whom all living
things came into being. Thou didst send forth the word when the earth
was submerged with silence, O thou Only One, who didst dwell in heaven
before ever the earth and the mountains came into being. Hail, thou Runner,
Lord, Only One, thou maker of the things that are, thou hast fashioned
the tongue of the Company of the Gods, thou hast produced whatsoever cometh
forth from the waters, thou springest up out of them above the submerged
land of the Lake of Horus. Let me breathe the air which cometh forth from
thy nostrils, and the north wind which cometh forth from thy mother Nut.
Make thou my Spirit-soul to be glorious, O Osiris, make thou my Heart-soul
to be divine.
Thou art
worshipped as thou settest, O Lord of the gods, thou art exalted by reason
of thy wondrous works. Shine thou with the rays of light upon my body
day by day, upon me, Osiris the scribe, the assessor of the divine offerings
of all the gods, the overseer of the granary of the Lords of Abydos, the
real royal scribe who loveth thee, Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.
Praise be unto thee, O Osiris, the Lord of Eternity, Un-Nefer, Heru-Khuti
(Harmakhis), whose forms are manifold, whose attributes are majestic [Praise
be unto thee], O thou who art Ptah-Seker-Tem in Anu, thou Lord of the
hidden shrine, thou Creator of the House of the KA of Ptah (Het-ka-Ptah)
and of the gods [therein], thou Guide of the Tuat, who art glorified when
thou settest in Nu (the Sky).
Isis embraceth
thee in peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the entrances of thy
paths. Thou turnest thy face towards Amentet, and thou makest the earth
to shine as with refined copper. Those who have lain down in death rise
up to see thee, they breathe the air, and they look upon thy face when
the disk riseth on the horizon. Their hearts are at peace since they behold
thee, o thou who art Eternity and Everlastingness.
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