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 arc given ; see Naville,
op . cit ., Bd. I . 131 . 46 . In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op . cit ., 131 . 17) the
deceased is spearing a single serpent .
Text : (1) TIIE CHAPTER OF REPULSING SERPENTS (or WORMS)
Nu, the overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith :- (2)
"Hail, thou serpent Rerek, advance not hither . Behold Sob
"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 cat ."
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. XXXI. TILE CHAPTER OF BEATING BACK THE CROCODILE THAT COMETII TO CARRY AWAY
THE CHARM FROM TIIE DECEASED. From the Papyrus of Nu.
in one MS . the deceased, with a knife in each hand, is seen attacking
four serpents, and in another four serpents only arc given ; see Naville,
op . cit ., Bd. I . 131 . 46 . In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op . cit ., 131 . 17) the
deceased is spearing a single serpent .
Text : (1) TIIE CHAPTER OF REPULSING SERPENTS (or WORMS)
Nu, the overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith :- (2)
"Hail, thou serpent Rerek, advance not hither . Behold Sob
"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 cat ."
The Source: The Book oDead,
the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
Translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit
London, 1898.
Translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit
London, 1898.
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