CHAPTER LXIIIz.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 12). ]
Vignette; The deceased standing before two symbols of fire, or the deceased sitting before a table of offerings and smelling a flower (Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 74).
! A better reading is Beb, J J }.
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Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF NOT BEING SCALDED WITH WATER. The overseer of the palace, the overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith:—
“T am the oar made ready for rowing, (2) where- “with Ra transported the boat containing the divine ‘ancestors, and lifted up the moist emanations of Osiris “from the Lake of Fire, (3) and he was not burned. I “lie down like a divine Spirit, [and like] Khnemu who ‘“‘dwelleth among lions. Come, break away (4) the ‘“yestraints from him that passeth by the side of this “path, and let me come forth by it.”
CHAPTER = LXIV.
The LX1Vth Chapter is probably one of the oldest of all in the Book of the Dead, and two versions of it seem to have existed in the earliest times. ‘The longer version is called the “ Chapter of coming forth by day in the underworld,” and the shorter the “ Chapter of knowing the ‘Chapters of coming forth by day’ in a single Chapter.” On a coffin of the XIth dynasty both versions occur. The rubric of one version says that it was discovered in the reign of [lesep-ti, 7.e., about B.C. 4266, while the rubric of the other attributes its discovery to the time of Menthu-hetep, which is clearly
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a mistake for Men-kau-Ra (Mycerinus). Thus in the XIth dynasty it was believed that the Chapter might even be as ancient as the time of the Ist dynasty. There is little doubt that the Chapter was looked upon as an abridgment of all the “ Chapters of coming forth
by day,” and that it had a value which was equivalent to them all.
[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9900, sheets 23 and 24). |
Vignette : The deceased adoring the sun's disk, which rises above the top of a tree.
Text: (1) Tue CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH BY DAY IN THE UNDERWORLD. Nebseni, the lord ot reverence, saith :— (2)
“T am Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow, [and I “ have] the power (3) to be born a second time ; [I am] “the divine hidden Soul who createth the gods, and “who giveth celestial meals unto. the denizens of the “Tuat (underworld), Amentet, and heaven. [I am] the “Rudder (4) of the Hast, the Possessor of two Divine
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‘Faces wherein his beams are seen. I am the Lord of “the men who are raised up; [the Lord] who cometh “forth from out of the darkness, and (5) whose forms ‘of existence are of the house wherein are the dead. ‘Hail, ye two Hawks who are perched upon your rest- ‘““ing-places, who hearken unto (6) the things which are ‘said by him, who guide the bier to the hidden place, ‘who lead along Ra, and (7) who follow [him] into the “uppermost place of the shrine which is in the celestial “heights! [Hail,] Lord of the Shrine which standeth “in the middle of the earth. (8) He is I, and I am “he, and Ptah hath covered his sky with crystal. “!Hail] Ra, thou who art content, thy heart (9) is “olad by reason of thy beautiful law of the day; thou ‘‘enterest in by Khemennu (?) and comest forth at the “east, and the divine (10) first-born beings who are in ‘“lthy] presence cry out with gladness [unto thee]. ‘Make thou thy roads glad for me, and make broad for “me thy paths (11) when I shall set out from earth for “the life in the celestial regions. Send forth thy light “upon me, O Soul unknown, for I am [one] of those ‘who are about to enter in, and the divine speech is in (12) [my] ears in the Tuat (underworld), and let no ‘defects of my mother be [imputed] unto me; let me “be delivered and let me be safe from (13) him whose “divine eyes sleep at eventide, when [he] gathereth “together and finisheth [the day] in night. I flood “(the land] with water and ‘Qem-ur’! is (14) my name
1 A name of Osiris.
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“and the garment wherewith I am.clothed is complete. “ Fail, thou divine prince Ati-she-f,! ery out unto those “divine beings who dwell in their hair at the (15) “season when the god is [lifted upon] the shoulder, “saying: ‘Come thou who [dwellest] above thy divine ‘abyss of water, for verily (16) the thigh [of the saeri- fice] is tied to the neck, and the buttocks are [laid] “upon the head of Amentet.’ May the Ur-urti? god- “ desses grant [such] gifts unto me when my tears start ‘from me as I see myself (17) journeying at the divine “festival of Tena in Abydos, and the wooden fastenings “which fasten the four doors above thee are in thy “power (18) within thy garment. Thy face is like that “ofa greyhound which scenteth with his nose the place “whither I go on my feet. The god (19) Akau ® tran- ‘“sporteth me to the chamber (?), and [my] nurse is the ‘divine double Lion-god himself. I am made strong “and I (20) come forth like him that forceth a way “through the gate, and the radiance which my heart “hath made is enduring; ‘I know the abysses’ is thy “name. I work for you, (21) O ye Spirits—four millions, “six hundred thousand, one thousand and two hundred “are they—concerning the things which are there. [I ‘“am|] over their affairs working (22) for hours and days “in setting straight the shoulders of the twelve Sah “gods, (23) and joining the hands of their company, “each to each; the sixth who is at the head of the
1 T.e., the ‘‘ Boundless.” 2 T.e., Isis and Nephthys. 3 A name of Anubis,
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‘abyss is the hour of the defeat of the Fiends. {I] “have come (24) there in triumph, and [I am] he who “is in the halls (or courtyards) of the underworld, and “T am he who is laid under tribute to (25) Shu. I rise “as the Lord of Life through the beautiful law of this “day, and it is their blood and the cool water of | their] “slaughter (26) which make the union of the earth to “blossom. I make a way among the horns of all those “who make themselves strong against me, and [among| “those who in secret (27) make themselves adversaries “unto me, and who are upon their bellies. I have ‘come as the envoy of my Lord (28) of lords to give “counsel [concerning] Osiris; the eye shall not absorb! “its tears. I am the divine envoy (?) of (29) the house “of him that dwelleth in his possessions, and I have “eome from Sekhem to Annu? to make known to the ‘ Bennu bird therein concerning the events of (30) the “Tuat (underworld). Hail, thou Aukert, (i.e., under- “ world) which hidest thy companion who is in thee, “thou creator of forms of existence like the god “ Khepera, grant thou that (31) Nebseni, the seribe and “designer to the temples of the South and of the North, “may come forth (82) to see the Disk, and that his ‘“journeyings forth (?) may be in the presence of the “oreat god, that is to say, Shu, who dwelleth in ever- “lastingness. Let me journey on in peace; (33) let
1 Literally, ‘‘ eat.” 2 T.e., I have come from Letopolis to Heliopolis; the Bennw bird in the latter city is, of course, Osiris (See Chapter XVIT., line 25).
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“me pass over the sky; let me adore the radiance of “the splendour [which is in] my sight ; let me soar like “a bird to see (54) the companies (?) of the Spirits in “the presence of Ra day by day, who vivifieth every “human being (35) that walketh upon the regions “which are upon the earth. Hail, Hemti (7.c., Runner), “hail, Hemti, who carriest away the shades of the “dead (36) and the Spirits from earth, grant thou unto “me a prosperous way to the Tuat (underworld), such “as is made for the favoured ones [of the god], “because (37) [I am] helpless to gather together the “emanations which come from me. Who art thou, “then, who consumest in its hidden place? (58) I am “the Chief in Re-stau, and ‘He that goeth in in his “own name and cometh forth in that of Hehi(?), the “Jord of millions of years, and of the earth, is my “name, The pregnant goddess hath (39) deposited “[upon the earth] her load, and hath given birth to “Fit straightway;~the closed door which is by the “wall is overthrown, (40) it is turned upside down and “T rejoice thereat. ‘To the Mighty One hath his eye “been given, and it sendeth forth light from his face “when the earth becometh light (or at day-break). I “shall not become corrupt (41), but I shall come into “being in the form of the Lion-god and like the “blossoms of Shu ;' I am the being who is never over- ‘‘whelmed in the waters. Happy, yea happy is he that
! The blossoms of Shu are the sun’s rays.
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“looked upon the funeral couch which hath come to its “place of rest, upon the happy day (42) of the god “whose heart resteth, who maketh his place of alight- “ine [thereon]. I am he who cometh forth by day; “the lord of the bier which giveth life in the presence “of Osiris. (43) In very truth the things which are “thine are stable each day, O scribe, artist, child of the “ Seshet chamber, Nebseni, lord of veneration. I clasp “the Sycamore tree, (44) I myself am joined unto the “Sycamore tree, and its.arm[s] are opened unto me ‘“‘oraciously. I have come and I have clasped the “ Utchat,' (45) and I have caused it to be seated in peace “upon its throne. I have come to see Ra when he “setteth, and I absorb into myself the winds [which arise] (46) when he cometh forth, and both my hands “are clean to adore him. I have gathered together “Tall my members], I have gathered together [all ‘“‘my members|. I soar like a bird (47) and I descend “upon the earth, and mine eye maketh me to walk “thereon in my footsteps. I am the child of yesterday, “and the Akeru® (48) gods of the earth have made me “to come into being, and they have made me strong for ‘my moment [of coming forth]. I hide with the god ‘“ Aha-aaiu® who will walk (49) behind me, and my ‘‘members shall germinate, and my khw shall be as an ‘amulet for my body and as one who watcheth [to pro- ' T.e., the Eye of Ra or Horus which was attacked by Set.
2 T.e., the two lion-gods who watch, one at each end, the path of the night sun.
3 T.e., “he who fights with both hands.”
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“tect | my soul (50) and to defend it and to converse “therewith ; and the company of the gods shall hearken “unto my words.”
RUBRIC: If this chapter be known [by the deceased] he shall be victorious both upon earth and in (51) the underworld. He shall do whatsoever a man doeth who is upon the earth, and he shall perform all the deeds which those do who are [alive]. Nowit is a great protection [given] by the god. This chapter was found (52) in the city of Khemennu inscribed in letters of lapis-lazuli upon the block of iron which was under the feet of this god.
In the Rubric to this Chapter as found in the Papyrus of Mes-em-neter, the Chapter is said to have been “ dis- “covered in the foundations of the shrine of the divine “ Hennu! boat by the chief mason in the time of the “king of the North and of the South, Semti (or ‘‘Tlesepti*), triumphant,” and it is there directed that it “shall be recited by one who is ceremonially pure “and clean, and who hath not touched women, and who “hath not eaten flesh of animals or fish.”
' See the note to Chapter I., p. 43. 2 A king of the Ist dynasty. See also the rubric to the longer version of the 64th from the Papyrus of Nu, infra, p. 221.
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