CHAPTER XIX,

[From Lepsius, Todtenbuch, Bl. 13. ] Vignette: This Chapter is without a vignette.
Text: THe CHAPTER OF THE CHAPLET OF VICTORY. (1) Osiris, Auf-ankh, victorious, born of Sheret-Amsu, victorious, saith :—
“Thy father Tem hath woven for thee a beautiful ‘‘chaplet of victory [to be placed] on [thy] living brow, “O thou who lovest the gods, (2) and thou shalt live
Chap. xix.7] HORUS ON THE THRONE OF RA 125 “for ever. Osiris-khent-Amentet! hath made thee to “triumph over thine enemies, and thy father Seb hath “ decreed for thee all his inheritance. Come, therefore, ‘CQ Horus, son of Isis, for thou, O son of Osiris, sittest “upon the throne of thy (3) father Ra to overthrow “thine enemies, for he hath ordained for thee the two “lands to their utmost limits. Atem? hath [also] “ordained this, and the company of the gods hath “confirmed the splendid power of the victory of Horus “the son of Isis and the son of Osiris for ever and (4) “for ever. And Osiris Auf-ankh shall be victorious “for ever andever. O Osiris-khent-Amentet, the whole “of the northern and southern parts of the heavens, “and every god and every goddess, who are in heaven “and who are upon earth [will] the victory of Horus, ‘“‘the son of Isis and the son of Osiris, over his enemies “in the presence of (5) Osiris-khent-Amentet who will “make Osiris Auf-ankh, victorious, to triumph over his ‘enemies in the presence of Osiris-khent-Amentet, Un- “nefer, the son of Nut, on the day of making him to “triumph over Set and his fiends (6) in the presence of “the great sovereign chiefs who are in Annu (Helio- polis); on the night of the battle and overthrow of “the Seba-fiend in the presence of the great sovereign “princes who are in Abtu; on the night of making “Osiris to triumph over his enemies (7) make thou “Osiris Auf-inkh, victorious, to triumph over his
! T.e., * Osiris, Governor of Amentet.” 2 I.e., Tem or Temu, the Night Sun.
126 THE PLOUGHING OF THE EARTH (Chap. xix.8
“enemies in the presence of the great sovereign princes, “who are in the horizon of Amentet; on the day of the “festival of Haker in the presence of the great sovereign ‘princes who are in Tattu; on the night (8) of the “setting up of the Tet in Tattu in the presence of the ‘“‘oreat sovereign princes who are in the ways of the “damned ; on the night of the judgment of those who “shall be annihilated in the presence of the great ‘sovereign princes who are in Sekhem (Letopolis) ; (9) “on the night of the ‘things of the altars in Sekhem’ “in the presence of the great sovereign princes who are “in Pet and Tept; on the night of the stablishing of “the inheriting by Horus of the things of his father “ Osiris in the presence of the great sovereign princes “(10) who are at the great festival of the ploughing ‘and turning up of the earth in Tattu, or (as others say), [in] Abtu; on the night of the weighing of “words,” or (as others say), “ weighing of locks in the “presence of the great sovereign princes who are in ‘‘An-rut-f on its place; on the night when Horus “receiveth the birth-chamber of the gods (11) in the ‘‘presence of the great sovereign princes who are in the “lands of Rekhti; on the night when Isis lieth down “to watch [and] to make lamentation for her brother in ‘the presence of the great sovereign princes who are in “ Re-stau ; on the night of making Osiris to triumph ‘over all his enemies ” (12).
‘Horus repeated [these] words four times, and all his ‘enemies fell headlong and were overthrown and were
Chap. xix. 14] THE TRIUMPH OF HORUS I27
“eut to pieces; and Osiris Auf-ankh, triumphant, “repeated [these] words four times, therefore let all his “enemies fall headlong, and be (13) overthrown and cut “to pieces. Horus the son of Isis and son of Osiris “celebrated in turn millions of festivals, and all his “enemies fell headlong, and were overthrown and cut “to pieces. Their habitation hath gone forth to the “block of the East, their heads have been cut off; (14) “their necks have been destroyed; their thighs have “been cut off; they have been given over to the Great “Destroyer who dwelleth in the valley of the grave ; “and they shall never come forth from under the “restraint of the god Seb.”
RUBRIC: This chapter shall be recited over the divine chaplet (15) which is laid upon the face of the deceased, and thou shalt cast incense into the fire on behalf of Osiris Auf- ankh, triumphant, born of Sheret-amsu, triumphant; thus shalt thou cause him to triumph over his enemies, (16) dead or alive, and he shall be among the followers of Osiris; and a hand shall be stretched out to him with meat and drink in the presence of the god. \[This chapter] shall be said by thee twice at dawn—now it is a never-failing charm—regularly and continually.
128 THE TRIUMPH OF OSIRIS [Chap. xx. 1