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The Egyptian Book of the dead

CHAPTER LXXXI.

Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) and Naville, Edouard
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Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the Lotus.
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I am the pure Lotus which cometh forth from the glory which is at the nostril of Rā, and I make my journey and pursue it for Horus, the great god beloved.
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I am the pure Lotus which cometh forth in the field.
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This little chapter is not without its special difficulty. Are we to read as a word implying motion, with as its determinative, or as implying invocation, with as its determinative? The copyists differed and some of them changed the word into so that there should be no ambiguity. But this does not clear up the words which immediately follow; hence Ba has suppressed them, whilst other copyists have given themselves no trouble as to the sense of what they wrote.

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The Egyptian Book of the dead, Project Gutenberg eBook #69566

CHAPTER LXXX. CHAPTER LXXXII.