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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 20

  THE PRIESTS ANMUTEF AND SAMEREF

  THE SPEECH OF THE PRIEST ANMUTEF.

  I have come unto you, O ye great Tchatcha Chiefs who dwell in

heaven, and upon earth, and in Khert-Neter, and I have brought unto

you the Osiris Ani. He hath not committed any act which is an

abomination before all the gods. Grant ye that he may live with you

every day.

  The Osiris the scribe Ani adoreth Osiris, Lord of Rasta, and the

Great Company of the Gods who live in Khert-Neter. He saith: "Homage

to thee, Khenti Amenti, Un-Nefer, who dwellest in Abtu. I come to

thee. My heart holdeth Truth. There is no sin in my body. I have not

told a lie wittingly, I have not acted in a double manner. Grant

thou to me cakes, let me appear in the presence, at the altar of the

Lords of Truth, let me go in and come forth from Khert-Neter [at

will], let not my Heart-soul be driven away [from me]; and grant me

a sight of the Disk and the beholding of the Moon for ever and ever.

  THE SPEECH OF THE PRIEST SAMEREF.

  I have come unto you, O ye Tchatcha Chiefs who dwell in Rasta, and I

have brought unto you the Osiris Ani, grant ye unto him cakes, and

water, and air, and a homestead in Sekhet-hetep as to the followers of

Horus.

  The Osiris the scribe Ani, whose word is truth, adoreth Osiris,

the Lord of everlastingness, and the Tchatcha Chiefs, the Lords of

Rasta. He saith: "Homage to thee, O King of Khert-Neter, thou Governor

of Akert! I have come unto thee. I know thy plans, I am equipped

with the forms which thou takest in the Tuat. Give thou to me a

place in Khert-Neter, near the Lords of Truth. May my homestead be

lasting in Sekhet-hetep, may I receive cakes in thy presence."