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240 BC
THE PAPYRUS OF ANI
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge
Part 60
[THE CHAPTER OF] MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO THE BENU BIRD. The
Osiris, the scribe Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I flew up out
of primeval matter. I came into being like the god Khepera. I
germinated like the plants. I am concealed like the tortoise [in his
shell]. I am the seed of every god. I am Yesterday of the Four
[Quarters of the Earth, and] the Seven Uraei, who came into being in
the Eastern land. [I am] the Great One (Horus) who illumineth the
Hememet spirits with the light of his body. [I am] that god in respect
of Set. [I am] Thoth who [stood] between them (Horus and Set) as the
judge on behalf of the Governor of Sekhem and the Souls of Anu. [He
was like] a stream between them. I have come. I rise up on my
throne. I am endowed with Khu. I am mighty. I am endowed with
godhood among the gods. I am Khensu, [the lord] of every kind of
strength.
RUBRIC: [If] this Chapter [be known by the deceased], he shall
come forth pure by day after his death, and he shall perform every
transformation which hs soul desireth to make. He shall be among the
Followers of Un-Nefer, and he shall satisfy himself with the food of
Osiris, and with sepulchral meals. He shall see the Disk [of the Sun],
he shall be in good case upon earth before Ra, and his word shall be
truth in the sight of Osiris, and no evil thing whatsoever shall
have dominion over him for ever and ever.
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