I. Vignette: The gods

Ra, Osiris, Shu, and Bebi, who is dog-headed.
Text : (1) The great sovereign princes who are in Na-arerut-f are Ra, Osiris, Shu, and Bebi. Now the “night of him who (2) con- cealeth himself in
divers forms, even Osiris,” is when the thigh, [and the head] and the heel, and the leg, are brought nigh unto the coffin of Osiris Un-nefer.
“ Hail, Thoth, who ‘“madest Osiris (3) to
“triumph over his
?
“enemies, make thou “QOsiris Ani to be ‘“vietorious over his
K “enemies in the pre- “sence of the great “sovereign princes in
THE GODS OF RE-STAU I23
iL. (4) Re-stau, on the , “night when Anubis “Jay with his arms Avs “and his hands over “the things behind “QOsiris, and when ‘Horus was made to
“triumph over his ‘* enemies,”
J. Vignette: The gods Horus, Osiris, Isis, and
Text : (1) The great sovereign princes in Re-stau are Horus, Osiris, and Isis. The heart of Osiris re- joiceth, and the heart of (2) Horus; and therefore are the northern and southern parts of heaven at
peace. ‘“‘ Hail, Thoth, who
1 The artist seems to have painted one god too many, and the third deity has not the usual form of Isis.
I24 THE CROWN OF VICTORY (Chap, xix.
‘“‘madest Osiris victorious over his enemies, make thou (3) Osiris Ani, the scribe and teller of the divine ‘offerings of all the gods, to triumph over his enemies ‘in the presence of the ten companies of great (4) “sovereign princes who are with Ra, and with Osiris, “and with every god and goddess in the presence of Neb- ‘“er-tcher. He hath destroyed his enemies, and (5) he “hath destroyed every evil thing belonging unto him.”
RUBRIC: This chapter being recited, the deceased shall come forth by day, purified after death, (6) and [he shall make all] the transformations which his heart shall dictate. Now, if this chapter be recited over him, he shall come forth upon earth, he shall escape from every fire; and none of the foul things which appertain unto him shall encompass him for eternity or for ever and ever.