CHAPTER LVII.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 12). ]
Hireaend
Vignette : The deceased standing in a stream of water, and holding a sail in his left hand (see Naville, op. e7t., Bd. I. Bl. 70).
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF SNUFFING THE AIR AND OF HAVING THE MASTERY OVER THE WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :—(2)
“Hail, Hap-ur,' god of heaven, in thy name of “* Divider of heaven,’ grant thou unto me that I may ‘have dominion over (3) the water, even as the goddess ‘““Sekhet had power over Osiris on the night of the “storms and floods. Grant thou that I may have ‘power over the divine princes who have their habita- “tions in the place of (4) the god of the inundation, “even as they have power over their own holy god of
' Te., the ‘Great Ilapi,”. or the celestial Nile.
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“whose name they are ignorant; and may they let me “have power even as [he hath let them have power].”
“My nostrils are (5) opened in Tattu,” or (as others say), “My mouth and my nostrils are opened in “atau, and I have my place of peace in Annu, which “is my house; it was built for me by the (6) goddess “ Sesheta,! and the god Khnemu set it up for me upon “ats walls. Ifto this heaven it cometh by the north, I “sit at the south; if to this heaven (7) it cometh by “the south, I sit at the north; if to this heaven it “cometh by the west, I sit at the east; andif to this “heaven it cometh by the east, (8) I sit at the west. I “draw the air of my nostrils, and I make my way into “every place in which I wish to sit.”
In the Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 70) this Chapter ends quite differently, and reads :—
“Tam strong in my mouth and in my nostrils, for “behold Tem has stablished them ; behold, O ye gods “and Khus. Rest thou, then, O Tem. Behold the “staff which blossometh, and which cometh forth when “a man erieth out in your names. Behold, I am Tem, “the tree (?) of the gods in [their] visible forms. Let “me not be turned back....I am the Am-khent, “Nefer-uben-f, triumphant. Let neither my flesh nor
! A goddess whose name was formerly read Sefek-aabui. She was a form of Hathor, and was the goddess of writing and of books; her worship goes back to the earliest dynasties.
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‘““my members be gashed with knives, let me not be “wounded by knives by you. I have come, I have “been judged, I have come forth therein, [I] have “power with my father, the Old Man, Nu. He hath ‘“oranted that I may live, he hath given strength unto ‘““me, and he hath provided me with the inheritance of
“my father therein.”