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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 28

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART-SOUL OF A MAN BE SNATCHED

AWAY FROM HIM IN KHERT-NETER. The Osiris the scribe Ani saith:--I,

even I, am he who cometh forth from the Celestial Water (Akeb). He

(Akeb) produced abundance for me, and hath the mastery there in the

form of the River.

  (The following is from the Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f, Naville, op.

cit., I, Bl. 72.)

  THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER IN KHERT-NETER. The am khent priest,

Nefer-uben-f, whose word is truth, saith:- I, even I, am he who cometh

forth from the god Keb. The water-flood is given to him, he hath

become the master thereof in the form of Hapi. I, the am khent

Nefer-uben-f, open the doors of heaven. Thoth hath opened to me the

doors of Qebh (the Celestial Waters). Lo, Hepi Hepi, the two sons of

the Sky, mighty in splendour, grant ye that I may be master over the

water, even as Set had dominion over his evil power on the day of

the storming of the Two Lands. I pass by the Great Ones, arm to

shoulder, even as they pass that Great God, the Spirit who is

equipped, whose name is unknown. I have passed by the Aged One of

the shoulder. I am Nefer-uben-f, whose word is truth. Hath opened to

me the Celestial Water Osiris. Hath opened to me the Celestial Water

Thoth-Hapi, the Lord of the horizon, in his name of "Thoth, cleaver of

the earth." I am master of the water, as Set is master of his

weapon. I sail over the sky, I am Ra, I am Ru. I am Sma. I have

eaten the Thigh, I have seized the bone and flesh. I go round about

the Lake of Sekhet-Ar. Hath been given to me eternity without limit.

Behold, I am the heir of eternity, to whom hath been given

everlastingness.