CHAPTER XXXa.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 5). ]
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Vignette : In many of the papyri containing the Theban Recension this Chapter has no vignette; in one, however, the vignette is a heart standing above a vase, in another the
1 Te., the deceased.
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deceased is seen adoring his heart, and in another the deceased is standing before four gods, one of whom is offering a heart to him (see Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I. Bl. 42).
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART OF THE OVERSEER OF THE HOUSE OF THE OVERSEER OF THE SEAL, NU, TRIUMPHANT, BE DRIVEN AWAY FROM HIM IN THE UNDERWORLD. He saith :—(2)
“OQ my heart, my mother; O my heart, my mother ! ‘“O my heart of my existence upon earth. May naught “stand up to oppose me in judgment in the presence of “the lords of the trial (3); let it not be said of me and “of that which I have done, ‘He hath done deeds “‘aoainst that which is right and true’; may naught “be against me in the presence of the great god, the “lord of Amentet. Homage to thee, O my heart! (4) “ Homage to thee, O my heart! Homage to you, O my “reins! Homage to you, O ye gods who dwell in the ‘divine clouds, and who are (5) exalted (or holy) by “reason of your sceptres! Speak ye [for me] fair “things to Ra, and make ye me to prosper before “Nehebka.!| And behold me, even though I be joined “to the earth in the mighty innermost parts thereof, “Jet me remain upon the earth and let me not die in « Amentet, but become a Khu therein.”
1 One of the forty-two judges in the Hall of Osiris.
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