II. (2) “On thy face, [O fiend], and devour me not,

“for I am pure, and I am with the time which cometh “of itself. Thou shalt not come to me, O thou that “comest® without being invoked, and whose [time of “coming| is unknown. I am the lord of thy mouth, “oet thee back (3), thou and thy desires (?) Hail, “ Haas,® with his flint [knife] Horus hath cut asunder
1 “Ass” is here a name of the Sun-god Ra, and the “ Hater of the Ass” is a name of Set or of one of his fiends.
2 These words are from the Papyrus of Ra.
8 A god of whom little is known. He is called the ‘‘ great god of the West,” and is said to be the deity of the dwellers in the western desert and mountains ; subsequently he was identified with a form of Osiris, and was especially worshipped in the sixth nome of Lower
Egypt.
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“thy members, and thou art destroyed within thy com- “pany, and thy bend (or dwelling-place) is destroyed “for thee by the company of thy gods who dwell in the “cities of Pe and (4) Tep. He that slayeth [thee] there “is in the form of the Kye of Horus, and I have driven “thee away as thou wast advancing, and I have van- “quished thee by the winds of my mouth. O thou “Kater (5) of those who commit sins, who dost plunder ‘and spoil, I have [committed] no sin ; therefore let my “palette and the writings’ with hostile charges [against ‘‘me upon them] be given unto me, I have done no “wrong in the presence of (6) the sovereign princes, “therefore shoot not thy [venom] at me. I give, do “thou take according to what I order; snatch me not “away, and eat me not, for I am the lord of life, the “Prince (Life, Health, Strength!) of the horizon.”
1 Apparently the palette upon which Thoth records the result of the weighing of the heart in the Hall of Osiris.
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