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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 44

  (From the Papyrus of Nu, Sheet 21)

  THE CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH AGAINST ENEMIES IN KHERT-NETER. The

Osiris Nu saith:- Hail, Am-a-f (Eater of his arm), I have passed

over the road. I am Ra. I have come forth from the horizon against

my enemies. I have not permitted him to escape from me. I have

stretched out my hand like that of the Lord of the Urrt Crown. I

have lifted up my feet even as the Uraei-goddesses lift themselves up.

I have not permitted the enemy [to be saved] from me. As for mine

enemy, he hath been given to me, and he shall not be delivered from

me. I stand up like Horus. I sit down like Ptah. I am strong like

Thoth. I am mighty like Tem. I walk with my legs. I speak with my

mouth. I chase my enemy. He hath been given unto me, and he shall

not be delivered from me.

  A HYMN OF PRAISE TO RA WHEN HE RISETH UPON THE HORIZON, AND WHEN

HE SETTETH IN THE LAND OF LIFE. Osiris the scribe Ani saith:- Homage

to thee, O Ra, when thou risest as Tem-Heru-Khuti. Thou art to be

adored. Thy beauties are before mine eyes, [thy] radiance is upon my

body. Thou goest forth to thy setting in the Sektet Boat with [fair]

winds, and thy heart is glad; the heart of the Matet Boat rejoiceth.

Thou stridest over the heavens in peace, and all thy foes are cast

down; the stars which never rest sing hymns of praise unto thee, and

the stars which are imperishable glorify thee as thou sinkest to

rest in the horizon of Manu, O thou who art beautiful at morn and at

eve, O thou lord who livest, and art established, O my Lord!

  Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest, and who art

Tem when thou settest in beauty. Thou risest and thou shinest on the

back of thy mother [Nut], O thou who art crowned the king of the gods!

Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Maat, the

everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and

at eve. Thou stridest over the heavens, being glad at heart, and the

Lake of Testes is content. The Sebau-fiend hath fallen to the

ground, his fore-legs and his hind-legs have been hacked off him,

and the knife hath severed the joints of his back. Ra hath a fair

wind, and the Sektet Boat setteth out on its journey, and saileth on

until it cometh into port. The gods of the South, the gods of the

North, the gods of the West, and the gods of the East praise thee, O

thou Divine Substance, from whom all living things came into being.

Thou didst send forth the word when the earth was submerged with

silence, O thou Only One, who didst dwell in heaven before ever the

earth and the mountains came into being. Hail, thou Runner, Lord, Only

One, thou maker of the things that are, thou hast fashioned the tongue

of the Company of the Gods, thou hast produced whatsoever cometh forth

from the waters, thou springest up out of them above the submerged

land of the Lake of Horus. Let me breathe the air which cometh forth

from thy nostrils, and the north wind which cometh forth from thy

mother Nut. Make thou my Spirit-soul to be glorious, O Osiris, make

thou my Heart-soul to be divine. Thou art worshipped as thou

settest, O Lord of the gods, thou art exalted by reason of thy

wondrous works. Shine thou with the rays of light upon my body day

by day, upon me, Osiris the scribe, the assessor of the divine

offerings of all the gods, the overseer of the granary of the Lords of

Abydos, the real royal scribe who loveth thee, Ani, whose word is

truth, in peace.

  Praise be unto thee, O Osiris, the Lord of Eternity, Un-Nefer,

Heru-Khuti (Harmakhis), whose forms are manifold, whose attributes are

majestic [Praise be unto thee], O thou who art Ptah-Seker-Tem in

Anu, thou Lord of the hidden shrine, thou Creator of the House of

the KA of Ptah (Het-ka-Ptah) and of the gods [therein], thou Guide

of the Tuat, who art glorified when thou settest in Nu (the Sky). Isis

embraceth thee in peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the

entrances of thy paths. Thou turnest thy face towards Amentet, and

thou makest the earth to shine as with refined copper. Those who

have lain down in death rise up to see thee, they breathe the air, and

they look upon thy face when the disk riseth on the horizon. Their

hearts are at peace since they behold thee, o thou who art Eternity

and Everlastingness.