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240 BC

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI

THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge

 

Part 50

  THE CHAPTER OF ADVANCING TO THE TCHATCHAU CHIEFS OF OSIRIS. The

Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I have built a house for my

Ba-soul in the sanctuary in Tetu. I sow seed in the town of Pe (Buto).

I have ploughed the fields with my labourers. My palm tree [standeth

upright and is] like Menu upon it. I abominate abominable things. I

will not eat the things which are abominations unto me. What I

abominate is filth: I will not eat it. I shall not be destroyed by the

offerings of propitiation and the sepulchral meals. I will not

approach filth [to touch it] with my hands, I will not tread upon it

with my sandals. For my bread shall be made of the white barley, and

my ale shall be made from the red grain of the god Hapi (the

Nile-god), which the Sektet Boat and the Atett Boat shall bring

[unto me], and I will eat my food under the leaves of the trees

whose beautiful arms I myself do know. O what splendour shall the

White Crown make for me which shall be lifted up on me by the

Uraei-goddesses! O Doorkeeper of Sehetep-taui, bring thou to me that

wherewith the cakes of propitiation are made. Grant thou to me that

I may lift up the earth. May the Spirit-souls open to me [their] arms,

and let the Company of the Gods hold their peace whilst the Hememet

spirits hold converse with the Osiris Ani. May the hearts of the

gods lead him in his exalted state into heaven among the gods who

appear in visible forms. If any god, or any goddess, attack the Osiris

Ani, whose word is truth, when he setteth out, the Ancestor of the

year who liveth upon hearts [Osiris] shall eat him when he cometh

forth from Abydos, and the Ancestors of Ra shall reckon with him,

and the Ancestors of Light shall reckon with him. [He is] a god of

splendour [arrayed in] the apparel of heaven, and he is among the

Great Gods. Now the subsistence of the Osiris Ani, whose word is

truth, is among the cakes and the ale which are made for your

mouths. I enter in by the Disk, I come forth by the god Ahui. I

shall hold converse with the Followers of the Gods. I shall hold

converse with the Disk. I shall hold converse with the

Hememet-spirits. He shall set the terror of me in the thick

darkness, in the inside of the goddess Mehurt, by the side of his

forehead. Behold, I shall be with Osiris, and my perfection shall be

his perfection among the Great Gods. I shall speak unto him with the

words of men, I shall listen, and he shall repeat to me the words of

the gods. I, the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace, have

come equipped. Thou makest to approach [thee] those who love thee. I

am a Spirit-soul who is better equipped than any [other] Spirit-soul.