CHAPTER LIV.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 12).]
Vignette : The deceased arrayed in white and holding a sail, symbolic of air, in his left hand (see Papyrus of Ani, sheet 15).
Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF GIVING AIR (2) TO THE OVERSEER OF THE HOUSE OF THE OVERSEER OF THE SEAL, Nv, TRIUMPHANT, IN THE UNDERWORLD. He saith :—
“Hail, thou god Temu, grant unto me the sweet “breath which dwelleth in thy nostrils! Iam the Egg “(3) which is in Kenkenur (7.e., the Great Cackler), “and I watch and guard that mighty thing which hath “eome into being and with which the god Seb hath “opened the earth. I live; and it liveth; (4) I become “old, I live, and I snuff the air. I am the god Utcha-
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“aabet (7.e., the god who trieth hostility), and I revolve “behind [to protect] his egg. I shine at the moment (5) of Horus, the mighty god Suti, whose strength is “two-fold. Hail, thou who makest sweet the seasons “of the two earths, thou dweller among celestial food, “thou dweller in the cerulean heights of heaven,' keep “watch over the Babe that dwelleth in his (6) cot when “he cometh forth to you.”