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240 BC
THE PAPYRUS OF ANI
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge
Part 61
[THE CHAPTER OF] MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A HERON. The
Osiris the scribe Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I am the master of
beasts brought for sacrifice, [and] of the knives which are [held]
at their heads [and] their beards; those who dwell in their emerald
[fields], the Aged Gods, and the Spirit-souls, are ready at the moment
for the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in peace. He maketh slaughter
on the earth, and I make slaughter on the earth. I am strong. I follow
the heights unto heaven. I have made myself pure. I walk with long
strides to my city. I have become an owner of land there. I advance to
Sepu...... is given to me in Unu. I have set the gods upon their
roads. I have made splendid the houses and towns of those who are in
their shrines. I know the stream of Nut. I know Tatun. I know Teshert.
I have brought along their horns. I know Heka. I have hearkened to
this words. I am the Red Bull-calf which is marked with markings.
The gods shall say when they hear [of me]: Uncover your faces. His
coming is to me. There is light which ye know not. Times and seasons
are in my body. I do not speak [lies] in the place of truth, daily.
The truth is hidden on the eyebrows. [By] night [I] sail up the
river to keep the feast of him that is dead, to embrace the Aged
God, and to guard the earth, I the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth.
(From the Saite Recension)
RUBRIC: If this Chapter be known [by the deceased], he will live
like a perfect Spirit-soul in Khert-Neter; no evil thing whatsoever
shall overthrow him.
[THE CHAPTER OF] MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO THE LOTUS. The
Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I am the holy lotus that
cometh forth from the light which belongeth to the nostrils of Ra, and
which belongeth to the head of Hathor. I have made my way, and I
seek after him, that is to say, Horus. I am the pure lotus that cometh
forth from the field [of Ra].
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