CHAPTER XXIV.

[From the Papyrus of Ani (Brit. Mus, No. 10,470, sheet 15). ]
Vignette: This Chapter has no vignette in the Theban papyri. The above vignette is from the Turin Papyrus, and represents a priest addressing the deceased.
Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF BRINGING CHARMS UNTO Ostris ANI [IN THE UNDERWORLD]; he saith :—(2)
‘“T am Tem-Khepera, who brought himself into being “upon the thigh of his divine mother, Those who are
1 The goddess of the heat of the sun as a power of destruction.
* The Souls of Annu are Ra, Shu, and Tefnut; see the vignette to Chapter CXYV.
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“in Nu (7.e., the sky) are made wolves, (3) and those “who are among the sovereign princes are become ‘hyenas. Behold, I gather together the charm [from “every place where] it is, and from every man with “whom it is, swifter than greyhounds and quicker than “light. (4) Hail, thou who towest along the Makhent “boat of Ra, the stays of thy sails and of thy rudder are “taut in the wind as thou sailest up the Pool of Fire in “the underworld. Behold, thou gatherest together the “charm (5) from every place where it is, and from every “man with whom it is, swifter than greyhounds and “quicker than light, [the charm] which created the “forms of being from the .... (6) mother, and which “either createth the gods or maketh them to be silent, “and which giveth the heat of fire unto the gods. “ Behold, the charm is given unto me, from wherever it “is [and from him with whom it is], (7) swifter than “oreyhounds and quicker than light,” or (as others say), “ quicker than a shadow.”
136 THE GIVING OF MEMORY TO THE DECEASED