Pyramid Texts
Mostly Serpent Charms, Utterances 226-243
225 To say: One serpent is encircled by another serpent,
225 when a toothless (?) calf born on pasture-land is encircled.
225 Earth, devour that which has come forth from thee. Monster (beast), lie down, glide away.
226 A servant (holy person) who belongs to the Ennead (pelican) is fallen in water.
226 Serpent, turn over that R` may see thee.
227 To say: The head of the great black bull was cut off.
227 Hpn.w-serpent, this is said to thee. r?-ntr-scorpion, this is said to thee:
227 Turn over, glide into the ground. I have said this to thee.
228 To say: Face falls on face; face sees face.
228 A knife, coloured black and green, goes out against it, until it has swallowed that which it has licked.
229 To say: This is the finger-nail of Atum,
229 which is upon the dorsal vertebra of the Nb.w-k.w (serpent) and which caused the strife in Wn.w to cease.
229 Fall, glide away.
230 To say: Be thy two poison-glands in the ground; be thy two rows of ribs in the hole.
230 Pour out the liquid. The two kites stand there.
230 Thy mouth is closed by the hangman's tool; the mouth of the hangman's tool is closed by the mfd.t (lynx).
230 The one made tired is bitten by a serpent.
231 O R`, N. has bitten the earth; N. has bitten Geb.
231 N. has bitten the father of him who bit him.
231 This is the being who has bitten N., (though) N. did not bite him.
232 It is he who is come against N., (though) N. does not go against him;
232 the second moment after he saw N., the second moment after he perceived N.
232 If thou bitest N., he will make one (piece) of thee; if thou regardest N., he will make two of thee.
233 The n`w-serpent (male) is bitten by the n`.t-serpent (female); the n`.t-serpent is bitten by the n`w-serpent.
233 Heaven is protected magically; earth is protected magically; the "manly" who is behind mankind is protected magically.
234 The god whose head is blind is protected magically; thou thyself, scorpion, art protected magically.
234 These are the two knots (charm) of Elephantin� which are in the mouth of Osiris,
234 which Horus knotted concerning the backbone.
235 To say: Thy bone is a harpoon-point by which thou wilt be harpooned. Hearts are checked; the nomads are in the place of the spear,
235 they are cast down. That is, the god mn.
236 To say: Mti, Mti, Mti, Mti;
236 Tiw, his mother, Tiw, his mother; Miti, Miti.
236 Be thou watered (washed), O desert; (let there be) water, not sand.
237 To say: The serpent which came forth from the earth is fallen; the flame which came forth from Nun is fallen.
237 Fall; glide away.
238 To say: A face is upon thee; thou who art on thy belly. Descend on thy backbone, thou who art in thy nw.t-bush.
238 Give away before the serpent who is provided with her two heads.
239 To say: Kwtiw, 'Imw, 'Imw.
239 Thou hast raped the two keepers of the stone door-jamb of 'It-tii-i-i.
241 To say: Spittle, which is not dried up (in dust?), (which has not) disappeared (flown) into the house of his mother,
241 serpent (beast), lie down.
242 To say: The bread of thy father belongs to thee, 'Iki-nhii;
242 thine own bread belongs to thy father and to thee, 'Ik(i)-nhii.
242 jewelry, oil, `i-tw, that is thine ox, the renowned, for whose deed this is being done.
243 To say: The white crown is gone forth; she has devoured the Great.
243 The tongue of the white crown has devoured the Great, yet the tongue was not seen.
244 To say: The uraeus-serpent belongs to heaven; the centipede of Horus, belongs in the earth.
244 Horus was an ox-herd when he trod on (things). N. treads upon the walk (gliding-place) of Horus,
244 while N. knows not him who is not known.
245 A face is, upon thee, thou who art in his (thy) nw.t-bush; mayest thou be lain on thy back, thou who art in his (thy) hole.
245 Meat-cooker of Horus, escape into the earth. O let the beast, O desert, glide away.
246 To say: "Spitting of the wall"; "Vomiting of the brick,"
246 that which comes out of thy mouth is thrown back against thyself.
247 To say: Extinguished is the flame. The flame-serpent is not found in the house of him who possesses Ombos.
247 It is a serpent, which will bite, which has slipped back into the house of him whom it will bite, that it may remain in it.