CHAPTER IV.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 19).]
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Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF PASSING OVER THE CELESTIAL ROAD (2) OF Re-stau. The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, the Osiris Nu,
triumphant, saith :—
“T open out a way over the watery abyss which “formeth a path between the two Combatants® and I “have come; may the fields of Osiris be given over
“into my power.”
1 T.e., the temple of Ra at Heliopolis. ; : : 2 T.e., Horus- and Set. Horus engaged in battle with Set, his father’s murderer, and after a prolonged fight which lasted three days, vanquished his opponent. Set threw filth at Horus, but Horus destroyed the members of Set ; see Chapter XVII., ll. 67-69. As nature powers Horus and Set typified Light and Darkness
respectively.
52 THE DECEASED TO DO NO WORK [Chap. v.