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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 36

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT PERISHING AND OF BEING ALIVE IN KHERT-NETER.

The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail ye children of the god Shu. The Tuat

hath gained the mastery over his diadem. Among the Hamemet Spirits may

I arise, even as did arise Osiris.

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT GOING IN TO THE BLOCK OF THE GOD. The Osiris

Ani saith:- My head was fastened on my body in heaven, O Guardian of

the Earth, by Ra. [This] was granted [to me] on the day of my being

stablished, when I rose up out of a state of weakness upon [my] two

feet. On the day of cutting off the hair Set and the Company of the

Gods fastened my head to my neck, and it became as firm as it was

originally. Let nothing happen to shake it off again! Make ye me

safe from the murderer of my father. I have tied together the Two

Earths. Nut hath fastened together the vertebrae of my neck, and [I]

behold them as they were originally, and they are seen in the order

wherein they were when as yet Maat was not seen, and when the gods

were not born in visible forms. I am Penti. I am the heir of the great

gods, I the Osiris the scribe Ani, whose word is truth.

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE EAST IN KHERT-NETER. The

Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, Phallus of Ra, which advanceth and beateth

down opposition. Things which have been without motion for millions of

years have come into life through Baba. I am stronger thereby than the

strong, and I have more power thereby than the mighty. Now, let me not

be carried away in a boat, or be seized violently and taken to the

East, to have the festivals of Sebau Devils celebrated on me. Let

not deadly wounds be inflicted upon me, and let me not be gored by

horns. Thou shalt neither fall [nor] eat fish made by Tebun.

  Now, no evil thing of any kind whatsoever shall be done unto me by

the Sebau Devils. [I shall not be gored by] horns. Therefore the

Phallus of Ra, [which is] the head of Osiris, shall not be swallowed

up. Behold, I shall come into me fields and I shall cut the grain. The

gods shall provide me with food. Thou shalt not then be gored,

Ra-Khepera. There shall not be then pus in the Eye of Tem, and it

shall not be destroyed. Violence shall not be done unto me, and I

shall not be carried away in [my] boat to the East to have the

festivals of the Sebau Devils celebrated on me in evil fashion.

Cruel gashes with knives shall not be inflicted upon me, and I shall

not be carried away in [my] boat to the East. I the Osiris, the

assessor of the holy offerings of all the gods, Ani, whose word is

truth, happily, the lord of fealty [to Osiris].