CHAPTER XXXYVIIIs.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 12). ]
Vignette: The deceased, holding in his left hand a sail, symbolic of air, and attacking three serpents with a knife which
166 OF LIVING BY AIR [Chap. xxxviii.n.
he holds in his right hand (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 52) In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, 7'odtenbuch, Bl. 17) the deceased holds a sail in the left hand, and the symbol of life in the right.
Text: (1) Tum CHApTer OF LIVING BY AIR IN THE UNDERWORLD. Nu, the overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, triumphant, the son of the overseer — of the house of the overseer of the seal, Amen-hetep, triumphant, saith :—(2)
“T am the double Lion-god, the first-born of Ra and “Tem of Ah-khebti,! [the gods] who dwell in their “divine chambers. Those who dwell (3) in their “divine abodes have become my guides, and they make “paths for me as they revolve in the watery abyss of “the sky by the side of the path of the boat of Tem. (4) I stand upon the timbers (?) of the boat of Ra, and “T recite his ordinances to the beings who have know- “ledge, and I am the herald of his words to him whose “throat stinketh. (5) I set free my divine fathers at ‘“eventide. I close the lips of my mouth, and I eat “like unto a living being. I have life (6) in Tattu, ‘Cand I live again after death like Ra day by day.”
1 T.e., ‘‘ the city of the papyrus swamps,” alluding to the place
in the Delta where Isis brought forth her son Horus after the death of Osiris.
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