CHAPTER XXVII.

[From the Papyrus of Ani (Brit. Mus. No, 10,470, sheets 15 and 16). ]
Vignette: The scribe Ani, with hands raised in adoration, and his heart, which is set upon a pedestal, in the presence of four gods who are seated upon a pedestal in the form of the
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emblem of Madt. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, Todtenbuch, Bl, 15) the deceased is shown kneeling before the four children of Horus.
Text: (1) THe CHAPYER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART (HATI) OF A MAN BE TAKEN FROM HIM IN THE UNDERWORLD.! Saith Osiris Ani :—
“ Hail, ye who carry away hearts! | Hail], ye who steal “and crush hearts, and who make [the heart of a man to “oo through its transformations according to his deeds, “Jet not what he hath done harm him before you].? (2) “Homage to you, O ye lords of eternity, ye possessors “ of everlastingness, take ye not this heart of Osiris Ani “into (3) your grasp, this heart of Osiris, and cause ye “not words of evil to spring up against it; because this “is the heart of (4) Osiris Ani, victorious, and it be- “longeth unto him of many names (i.e., Thoth), the “mighty one whose words are his limbs, and who “sendeth forth his heart to dwell (5) in his body. The
1 The Papyrus of Mes-em-neter (Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. II. p. 92) adds :—‘‘ His heart goeth forth to take up its abode in his body, his heart is renewed before the gods, and he hath gained the mastery over it.”
2 The words within brackets are from the Papyrus of Mes-em- neter.
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“heart of Osiris Ani is victorious, it is made new “before the gods, he hath gained power over it, he hath “not been spoken to [according to] what he hath done. “He hath gotten power over (6) his own members. “His heart obeyeth him, he is the lord thereof, it is in “his body; and it shall never fall away therefrom. I, “ Osiris, the scribe Ani, victorious in peace, and trium- “phant in the beautiful Amenta and on the mountain “of eternity, bid thee to be obedient unto me in the “underworld.”