CHAPTER XXIXB.
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Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) and Naville, Edouard
Another Chapter of the Heart; upon Carnelian.
I am the Heron, the Soul of Râ, who conduct the Glorious ones to the Tuat.
It is granted to their Souls to come forth upon the Earth to do whatsoever their Genius willeth.
It is granted to the soul of the Osiris N to come forth upon the Earth to do whatsoever his Genius willeth.
Note.
Certain chapters having reference to the Heart were written upon gems[45] and served as amulets, the 26th upon Lapis-lazuli, the 27th upon green Felspar, the 30th upon Serpentine, and the foregoing chapter upon Carnelian.
M. Naville has called this chapter 29B, as marking its natural place in the Book of the Dead. It is not often found in the Papyri. M. Naville found one copy in the Berlin Papyrus of Nechtuamen, and another traced by Lepsius in Rome from a papyrus now lost. A third copy will be found in the papyrus of Ani[46] in the British Museum. It differs from the two others in “conducting the gods to the Tuat,” and by omitting some words for which there was no room in the space provided.
Source notes
45. See a charming article by Professor Ebers in the Zeitschrift of 1880, entitled “Einige inedita.”
46. Pl. 33.