CHAPTER LIIT.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 11). ]
Vignette: This Chapter is without a vignette in the Theban
Recension; in the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. c7t., Bl. 22) the
deceased is seated on a chair with a table of offerings before
him, and his left hand, with a bowl therein, is stretched out over it. See the vignette to Chapter LIT.
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF NOT EATING FILTH AND OF NOT DRINKING FOUL WATER IN THE UNDER- WORLD. ‘The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :—
“T am the Bull with two horns, and [I] lead (2) along “the heavens. [I am] the lord of the risings of the “heavens, the Great [luminer who cometh forth out of “flame, the bestower of years, the far extending One, “the double Lion-god, and there hath been given to “me (3) the journey of the god of splendour (Khu). “That which is an abomination unto me, that which is ‘an abomination unto me, let me not eat. [Let me not eat] filth, and let me not drink foul water, and let me “not be tripped up and fall [in the underworld]. (4) I
1 Var., Shu.
196 OF AVOIDING UNCLEAN FOOD (Chap. iii,
“am the lord of cakes in Annu, and my bread is in “heaven with Ra, and my cakes are on the earth with “the god Seb, for the Sektet boat and the Afet boat “have (5) brought them to me from the house of the “oreat god who isin Annu. I have put away from me ‘“‘my associates, and I have united myself to the boat of “heaven. I eat of what they (i.e., the gods, or the ‘divine boatmen) eat there; I live upon what (6) they “Jive upon there; and I eat of the cakes which are in “the hall of the lord of sepulchral offerings, I the over- “seer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, “triumphant.” !
1 In the Leyden Papyrus of Ra the Chapter ends :—‘“‘ triumphant before the great god, the lord of Amentet, and before Anpu”; in the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. cit., Bl. 22) it ends with the words :—‘‘ Filth is an abomination unto me, and I will not eat it.”
Chap. liv.] OF OBTAINING AIR 197