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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 32

  (From the Papyrus of Nu, Sheet 5)

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART OF NU, WHOSE WORD IS TRUTH,

BE CARRIED AWAY FROM HIM IN KHERT-NETER. He saith:- Hail, thou

Lion-god! I am Unb (the Blossom). That which is held in abomination to

me is the block of slaughter of the god. Let not this my heart-case be

carried away from me by the Fighting Gods in Anu. Hail, thou who

dost wind bandages round Osiris, and who hast seen Set. Hail, thou who

returnest after smiting and destroying him before the mighty ones!

This my heart weepeth over itself before Osiris; it hath made

supplication for me. I have given unto him and I have dedicated unto

him the thoughts of the heart in the House of the god (Usekh-her),

have brought unto him sand at the entry to Khemenu. Let not this my

heart-case be carried away from me. I make you to ascend his throne,

to fetter heart-cases for him in Sekhet-hetep, [to live] years of

strength away from things of all kinds which are abominations to

him, to carry off food from among the things which are thine, and

which are in thy grasp through thy strength. And this my heart-case is

devoted to the decrees of the god Tem, who guideth me through the

caverns of Suti, but let not this my heart, which hath performed its

desire before the Tchatcha Chiefs who are in Khert-Neter, be given

to him. When they find the leg and the swathings they bury them.

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART OF NU, WHOSE WORD IS TRUTH,

BE DRIVEN AWAY FROM HIM IN KHERT-NETER. He saith:- My heart of my

mother. My heart of my mother. My heart-case of my existence upon

the earth. Let no one stand up against me when I bear testimony in the

presence of the Lords of Things. Let it not be said against me and

of that which I have done "He hath committed acts which are opposed to

what is right and true," and let not charges be brought up against

me in the presence of the Great God, the Lord of Amentet. Homage to

thee, O my heart (ab). Homage to thee, O my heart-case. Homage to you,

O my reins. Homage to you, O ye gods, who are masters of [your]

beards, and who are holy by reason of your sceptres. Speak ye for me

words of good import to Ra, and make ye me to have favour in the sight

of Nehebkau.