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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 29

  (The following two Chapters are from the Papyrus of Nu, Sheets 7 and

12)

  THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER AND OF NOT BEING BURNT UP BY FIRE

[IN KHERT-NETER]. Nu saith:- Hail, Bull of Amentet! I am brought

unto thee. I am the paddle of Ra wherewith he transported the Aged

Gods. Let me neither be burnt up nor destroyed by fire. I am Beb,

the firstborn son of Osiris, to whom every god maketh an offering in

the temple of his Eye in Anu. I am the divine Heir, the Mighty One,

the Great One, the Resting One. I have made my name to flourish.

Deliverer, thou livest in me [every day].

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING BOILED IN FIRE. Nu saith:- I am the

paddle which is equipped, wherewith Ra transported the Aged Gods,

which raised up the emissions of Osiris from the Lake of blazing fire,

and he was not burned. I sit down like the Light-god, and like Khnemu,

the Governor of lions. Come, cut away the fetters from him that

passeth by the side of this path, and let me come forth therefrom.

  THE CHAPTER OF GIVING AIR IN KHERT-NETER. The Osiris Ani saith:- I

am the Egg which dwelt in the Great Cackler. I keep ward over that

great place which Keb hath proclaimed upon earth. I live; it liveth. I

grow up, I live, I snuff the air. I am Utcha-aab. I go round about his

egg [to protect it]. I have thwarted the moment of Set. Hail, Sweet

one of the Two Lands! Hail, dweller in the tchefa food! Hail,

dweller in the lapis-lazuli! Watch ye over him that is in his

cradle, the Babe when he cometh forth to you.