CHAPTER XVII.
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Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) and Naville, Edouard
Chapter whereby one cometh forth by day out of the Netherworld. Let the words be said:
I am he who closeth and he who openeth, and I am but One.(1)
I am Râ at his first appearance.
I am the great god, self-produced;
His Names together compose the cycle of the gods;
Resistless is he among the gods.(2)
I, who am Osiris, am Yesterday and the kinsman of the Morrow.(3)
A scene of strife arose among the gods when I gave the command.(4)
Amenta is the scene of strife among the gods.
I know the name of the great god who is here.
Herald[20] of Râ is his name.
I am the great Heron who is in Heliopolis, who presideth over the account of whatsoever is and of that which cometh into being.(5)
Who is that? It is Osiris who presideth over the account of all that is and all that cometh into being, that is Endless Time and Eternity. Endless Time is Day and Eternity is Night.
I am Amsu in his manifestations; there have been given to me the Two Feathers upon my head.(6)
Who is that, and what are his Feathers? It is Horus, the avenger of his father, and the Two Feathers are the Uræi upon the forehead of his father Tmu.(7)
I have alighted upon my Land, and I come from my own Place.
What is that? It is the Horizon of my father Tmu.
All defects are done away, all deficiencies are removed, and all that was wrong in me is cast forth.
I am purified at the two great and mighty Lakes at Sutenhunen, which purify the offerings which living men present to the great god who is there(8).
Who is that? It is Râ himself.
Which are the two great and mighty Lakes? The Lake of Natron and the Lake of Māāt(9).
I advance over the roads, which I know, and my face is on the Land of Māāt.
What is that? The road upon which father Tmu advanceth, when he goeth to the Field of Aarru, approaching to the land of Spirits in Heaven.
I come forth through the T’eser gate.
What is that? This gate of the gods is Haukar. It is the gate and the two doors and openings, through which father Tmu issueth to the Eastern Horizon of Heaven.(10)
O ye who have gone before! Let me grasp your hands, me who become one of you.
Who are they? Those who have gone before are Hu and Sau. May I be with their father Tmu, throughout the course of each day.(11)
I make full the Eye when it waxeth dim on the day of battle between the two Opponents.(12)
What is that? The battle of the two Opponents is the day upon which Horus fighteth with Sut, when he flingeth his filth upon the face of Horus, and when Horus seizeth upon the genitals of Sut, for it is Horus who doeth this with his own fingers.
I lift up the hairy net from the Eye at the period of its distress.(13)
What is that? The right Eye of Râ in the period of its distress when he giveth it free course, and it is Thoth who lifteth up the net from it.
I see Râ, when he is born from Yesterday, at the dugs of the Mehurit cows?(14) His course is my course, and conversely mine is his.
What is that? Râ and his births from Yesterday at the dugs of the Mehurit cows? It is the figure of the Eye of Râ, at his daily birth. And Mehurit is the Eye.
I am one of those who are in the train of Horus.
What is that—‘one of those in the train of Horus’? Said with reference to whom his Lord loveth.
Hail, ye possessors of Māāt, divine Powers attached to Osiris, who deal destruction to falsehood, ye who are in the train of Hotepeschaus, grant me that I may come to you. Do ye away the wrong which is me, as ye have done to the Seven Glorious ones, who follow after the Coffined one, and whose places Anubis hath fixed on that day of ‘Come thou hither’!
Hotepeschaus is the divine Flame which is assigned to Osiris for burning the souls of his adversaries. I know the names of the Seven Glorious ones who follow the Coffined one, and whose places Anubis hath fixed on the day of ‘Come thou hither.’ The leader of this divine company,
‘An-ar-ef, the Great’ is his name; 2, Kat-kat; 3, the Burning Bull, who liveth in his fire; 4, the Red-eyed one in the House of Gauze; 5, Fieryface which turneth backwards; 6, Dark Face in its hour; 7, Seer in the Night.(15)
I am he whose Soul resideth in a pair of gods.
It is Osiris, as he cometh to Tattu, and there findeth the soul of Râ; each embraceth the other, and becometh Two Souls.