CHAPTER LIX.

[From the Papyrus of Ani (Brit. Mus. No. 10,470, sheet 16). ]
Vignette : Ani kneeling beside a pool of water, wherein grows
a sycamore tree; in the tree appears the goddess Nut pouring
out water for him from a vessel with the left hand, and giving him cakes with the right.
Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF SNUFFING THE AIR, AND OF HAVING DOMINION OVER THE WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. Osiris Ani saith :—
“Hail, thou sycamore tree of the goddess Nut! “Grant thou to me of [the water and of] the (2) air “which dwell in thee. I embrace the throne which is “in Unnu (Hermopolis), and I watch and guard (3) the “ Heo of Nekek-ur (7.e., the Great Cackler). It groweth, “T crow; it liveth, I live; (4) it snuffeth the air, I ‘snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, in triumph.”
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