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The Book of the Dead

Chapter 55

D. Vignette: The gods Horus, Isis, Mes-

tha, and Hapi.
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes who are in Pet and Tept are Horus, Isis, Mestha, and Hapi. Now “setting up the columns of (2) Horus ” signifieth the command given by Set unto his followers: “Set up columns “upon it.”
“Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris
1 T.e., An-rut-f.
2 Pet and Tept were the two halves of the
city Per-Uatchet, or the metropolis of the X1Xth nome of Lower Egypt.
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THE GODS OF THE REKHTI LANDS IIg
“ vietorious over (3) his enemies, make “thou the Osiris Ani, triumphant in “peace, victorious over his enemies in “the presence of the great sovereign “princes who are in the lands of “Rekhti, (?) on the (4) night when “Tsis lay down to keep watch in order “to make lamentation for her brother “ Osiris.”
EH. Vignette: The gods Isis, Horus,! Anpu (Anubis), Mestha, and Thoth.
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes who are in the lands of Rekhti (?) are Horus, Isis [Anubis], Mestha [and Thoth].
“Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris ‘‘ victorious (2) over his enemies, make “thou Osiris, the scribe Ani, trium- ‘“phant in peace, to be victorious over ‘his enemies in the presence of the ‘‘oreat sovereign princes (3) who are in “ Abtu (Abydos), on the night of the “ood Haker, at the separation of the “wicked dead, at the judgment (4) of “the Khus, and at the rising up of joy “in Teni (This).”
1 The artist has actually given a figure of Osiris.
THE GODS OF ABTU
F, Vignette : The gods Osiris, Isis, and Ap-uat, and the Tet.
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes who are in Abtu are Osiris, Isis, and Ap-uat.
“Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris “victorious (2) over his enemies, make “thou Osiris Ani, the scribe and teller ‘of the sacred offerings of all the gods, ‘“(3) to be victorious over his enemies “in the presence of the sovereign “princes who judge the dead, on the “night (4) of the carrying out of the ‘sentence upon those who are to die.”
G. Vignette: The gods Thoth, Osiris, Anpu (Anubis), and Astennu.!
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes in the judgment of the dead are Thoth, Osiris, Anubis, and Asten- nu. (2) Now the “carrying out of the sentence upon those who are to die” is the withholding of that which is so needful to the souls of the children of impotent revolt.
“ Hail, (8) Thoth who madest Osiris “victorious over his enemies, make
1 A form of the god Thoth.
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“thou Osiris, the scribe Ani, to be “victorious over his enemies in the “presence of the great (4) sovereign “princes, on the festival of the break- “ing and turning up of the earth in “Tattu, on the night of the breaking “and turning up of the earth in their “blood, and of making Osiris to be “victorious over his enemies.”
H. Vignette: The three gods of the festival of breaking up the earth in Tattu.
Text: (1) When the fiends of Set come and change themselves into beasts, the great sovereign princes, on the festival of the breaking and turning up of the earth in Tattu, (2) slay them in the presence of the gods therein, and their blood floweth among them as they are smitten down. (3) These things are allowed to be done by them by the judgment of those who are in Tattu.
“ Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris to “triumph over his enemies, make thou “the Osiris Ani (4) to be victorious “over his enemies in the presence of “the great sovereign princes who are ‘in Na-arerut-f,' on the night of him
1 Te,, An-rut-f.
THE GODS OF AN-RUT-F
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““who concealeth him- “self in divers forms, “even Osiris.”