CHAPTER XXXIII.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 6). |
Vignette : This Chapter is without a vignette in the Papyrus
of Nu, but in one MS. the deceased, with a knife in each hand,
is seen attacking four serpents, and in another four serpents
only are given; see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 46. In the Turin
Papyrus (Lepsius, op. crt., Bl. 17) the deceased is spearing a single serpent.
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF REPULSING SERPENTS (or worms) Nu, the overseer of the house of the over- seer of the seal, triumphant, saith :—(2)
“Hail, thou serpent Rerek, advance not hither. “Behold Seb and Shu. Stand still now, and thou “shalt eat the rat which is an abominable thing unto “Ra, and (3) thou shalt crunch the bones of the filthy
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Chap. xxxiv, AGAINST SNAKE BITE 159