CHAPTER IIL.

{From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 18).]
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Text: (1) ANOTHER CHAPTER LIKE UNTO THE PRECEDING. The overseer of the house of the over- seer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :— (2)
“Hail, thou god Tem, who comest forth from the “Great Deep,! and who shinest with glory under the “form of the double Lion-god,? send out with might “thy words unto those who are in thy presence, (3) and “Jet the overseer of the house of the overseer of the “seal, Nu, triumphant, enter into their assembly. He ‘hath performed the decree which hath been spoken to . “the mariners of Ra at eventide, (4) and the Osiris ‘Nu, triumphant, liveth after he hath died, even as
! T.e., the celestial Nile. * T.e., the god Shu and the goddess Tefnut,
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“doth Ra day by day...... As Ra is born from “(5) yesterday even so shall the Osiris Nu be born “[from yesterday], and every god shall rejoice at the “life of the Osiris Nu, even as they rejoice at (6) the “life of Ptah when he maketh his appearance from the “oreat Temple! of the Aged One which is in Annu.”