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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 31

  (From the Papyrus of Nu)

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT ALLOWING THE HEART.... TO BE CARRIED AWAY DEAD IN

KHERT-NETER. [Nu, whose word is truth, saith]:- My heart is with me,

and it shall never come to pass that it be carried away. I am the Lord

of Hearts, the slayer of the heart-case. I live in truth, I have my

being therein. I am Horus, the Dweller in Hearts, [I am] in the

Dweller in the body. I have life by my word, my heart hath being. My

heart-case shall not be snatched away from me, it shall not be

wounded, it shall not be put in restraint if wounds are inflicted upon

me. [If] one take possession of it I shall have my being in the body

of my father Keb and in the body of my mother Nut. I have not done

that which is held in abomination by the gods. I shall not suffer

defeat [for] my word is truth.

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART-CASE OF A MAN BE TAKEN AWAY

FROM HIM IN KHERT-NETER. The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, ye who steal and

crush heart-cases [and who make the heart of a man to go through its

transformations according to his deeds: let not what he hath done harm

him before you]. Homage to you, O ye Lords of Eternity, ye masters

of everlastingness, take ye not this heart of Osiris Ani into your

fingers, and this heart-case, and cause ye not things of evil to

spring up against it, because this heart belongeth to the Osiris

Ani, and this heart-case belongeth to him of the great names

(Thoth), the mighty one, whose words are his members. He sendeth his

heart to rule his body, and his heart is renewed before the gods.

The heart of the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, is to him; he hath

gained the mastery over it. He hath not said what he hath done. He

hath obtained power over his own members. His heart obeyeth him, he is

the lord thereof, it is in his body, and it shall never fall away

therefrom. I command thee to be obedient unto me in Khert-Neter. I,

the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace; whose word is truth

in the Beautiful Amentet, by the Domain of Eternity.