CHAPTER LVIII.

[From the Papyrus of Ani (Brit. Mus. No. 10,470, sheet 16). ]
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Vignette: Ani and his wife Thuthu standing in a pool of
running water; each holds a sail, the symbol of air, in the left
hand, and scoops up water to the mouth with the right hand.
On the edges of the pool are palm trees, from the largest of which hang great clusters of dates.
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF BREATHING THE AIR
Chap. lviii.] OF BREATHING THE AIR 203
AND OF HAVING DOMINION OVER THE WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. Osiris Ani saith :—
“Open to me.” Who art thou? Whither goest thou? (2) What is thy name? “Tam one of you.”? Who are those with thee? ‘“ The two serpent goddesses ‘““ Merti. Separate thou from him, head from head, “when (3) [thou] goest into the divine Mesqen chamber. “He letteth me set out for the temple of the gods “who have found their faces. ‘Assembler of Souls’ ““(4) is the name of my boat; ‘Making the hair to “stand on end’ is the name of the oars; ‘Goad’ is the “name of the (5) hold(?); ‘Making straight for the “middle’ is the name of the rudder; likewise [the boat] is a type of my being borne onward (6) in the “pool. Let there be given unto me vessels of milk, “together with cakes, and loaves of bread, and cups of “drink, and flesh (7) in the Temple of Anpu.”
RUBRIC: If he (i.e., the deceased) knoweth this chapter, he shall go into, after coming forth from, the underworld of the [beautiful Amentet ].
1 I.e., Isis and Nephthys.
204 OF SNUFFING THE AIR [ Chap. lix.