CHAPTER L.s.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 19). |
Vignette; This Chapter is without a vignette in the Theban Recension, Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF NOT ENTERING IN UNTO THE BLOCK. The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, triumphant, saith :—
“T have joined up my head and neck in heaven [and] “in earth. (2) Behold it is Ra who, day by day, “stablisheth the knot for him who stood helpless upon ‘his legs on the day of cutting off the hair, The god “ Suti and the company of the gods have joined together
I9g2 OF AVOIDING THE BLOCK OF SLAUGHTER [Ch.1.s.5
“my (8) neck and my back strongly, and they are even “as they were in the time that is past; may nothing “happen to break them apart! Make ye me strong “against the slaughterer of my divine father. (4) I “have gotten power over my two hands. The goddess ‘Nut hath joimed together the bones of my neck and “back, and I behold them as they were in the time “that is past, when as yet I had not seen Maat, and “when the gods were not born (5) in visible forms. I “am Penti, and I am in the form of the destroyer of “the great gods.”