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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 37

  THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEAD OF A MAN BE CUT OFF FROM HIS

BODY IN KHERT-NETER. The Osiris Ani saith:- I am a Great One, the

son of a Great One. [I am] Fire, the son of Fire, to whom was given

his head after it had been cut off. The head of Osiris was not removed

from his body, and the head of Osiris Ani shall not be removed from

his body. I have knitted myself together, I have made myself whole and

complete. I shall renew my youth. I am Osiris Himself, the Lord of

Eternity.

  THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE SOUL TO BE JOINED TO ITS BODY IN

KHERT-NETER. The Osiris Ani saith:- Hail, thou god Aniu! Hail, thou

god Pehreri, who dwellest in thy hall, the Great God. Grant thou

that my soul may come to me from any place wherein it may be. Even

if it would tarry, let my soul be brought unto me from any place

wherein it may be. Thou findest the Eye of Horus standing by thee like

unto those beings who resemble Osiris, who never lie down in death.

Let not the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, lie down dead among those

who lie in Anu, the land wherein [souls] are joined to their bodies in

thousands. Let me have possession of my Ba-soul and of my Spirit-soul,

and let my word be truth with it (the Ba-soul) in every place

wherein it may be. Observe then, O ye guardians of Heaven, my soul

[wherever it may be]. Even if it would tarry, cause thou my Ba-soul to

see my body. Thou shalt find the Eye of Horus standing by thee like

[the Watchers].

  Hail, ye gods who tow along the boat of the Lord of Millions of

Years, who bring it over the sky of the Tuat, who make it to journey

over Nent, who make Ba-souls to enter into their Spirit-bodies,

whose hands hold the steering poles and guide it straight, who grasp

tightly your paddles, destroy ye the Enemy; thus shall the Boat

rejoice, and the Great God shall travel on his way in peace. Moreover,

grant ye that the Ba-soul of the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth

before the gods, may come forth with your navel cords in the eastern

part of the sky, and that it may follow Ra to the place where he was

yesterday, and may set in peace, in peace in Amentet. May it gaze upon

its earthly body, may it take up its abode and its Spirit-body, may it

neither perish nor be destroyed for ever and for ever.

  RUBRIC: These words shall be said over a model of the Ba-soul made

of gold, and inlaid with precious stones, which shall be placed on the

breast of the Osiris.