Vignette : The deceased holding a sail, symbolic of air .
Text : (1) THE CHAPTER OF LIVING BY AIR IN THE UNDER-
WORLD. The scribe Nebseni, the lord to whom veneration is
paid, saith :-
"[I am the god Tem], who cometh forth out of (2) Nu into
"the watery abyss . I have received [my habitation of Amentet,
"and have given commands] with my words to the [Kluis] whose
"abiding places are hidden (3), to the Khus and to the double
"Lion-god . I have made journeys round about and I have sung
"hymns of joy in the boat of Khepera . I have eaten therein,
"I have gained power (4) therein, and I live therein through
"the breezes [which are there] . I am the guide in the boat of
"Rd, and he openeth out for me a path ; he maketh a passage
"for me through the gates (5) of the god Seb . I have seized
"and carried away those who live in the embrace of the god
"Ur (i . e ., Mighty One) ; I am the guide of those who live in
"their shrines, the two brother-gods Horus and Set ; and I bring
"the (6) noble ones with me . I enter in and I come forth, and
"my throat is not slit ; I go into the boat of Maat, and I pass
"in among (7) those who live in the Atet boat, and who are in
"the following of Ra, and are nigh unto him in his horizon .
"I live after my death day by by, and I am strong even as is
"the double Lion-god . (8) I live, and I am delivered after my
"death, I, the scribe Nebseni, the lord of piety, who fill the
"earth and come forth like the lily of mother-of-emerald, of the
"god Hetep of the two lands ."
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. XXXVII, THE CHAPTER OF DRIVING BACK THE; TWO MERTI GODDESSES . From the
Papyrus of Nu.
Text : (1) THE CHAPTER OF LIVING BY AIR IN THE UNDER-
WORLD. The scribe Nebseni, the lord to whom veneration is
paid, saith :-
"[I am the god Tem], who cometh forth out of (2) Nu into
"the watery abyss . I have received [my habitation of Amentet,
"and have given commands] with my words to the [Kluis] whose
"abiding places are hidden (3), to the Khus and to the double
"Lion-god . I have made journeys round about and I have sung
"hymns of joy in the boat of Khepera . I have eaten therein,
"I have gained power (4) therein, and I live therein through
"the breezes [which are there] . I am the guide in the boat of
"Rd, and he openeth out for me a path ; he maketh a passage
"for me through the gates (5) of the god Seb . I have seized
"and carried away those who live in the embrace of the god
"Ur (i . e ., Mighty One) ; I am the guide of those who live in
"their shrines, the two brother-gods Horus and Set ; and I bring
"the (6) noble ones with me . I enter in and I come forth, and
"my throat is not slit ; I go into the boat of Maat, and I pass
"in among (7) those who live in the Atet boat, and who are in
"the following of Ra, and are nigh unto him in his horizon .
"I live after my death day by by, and I am strong even as is
"the double Lion-god . (8) I live, and I am delivered after my
"death, I, the scribe Nebseni, the lord of piety, who fill the
"earth and come forth like the lily of mother-of-emerald, of the
"god Hetep of the two lands ."
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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