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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter VIII
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
The Hour discloseth what the head of Thoth keepeth close, who giveth might to the Eye of Horus
2.
And I call upon the Eye of Horus which gleams as an ornament upon the brow of Râ, the father of the gods
3.
I am that Osiris, the Lord of Amenta, and Osiris knoweth his day, and that it is in his lot that he should end his being, and be no more
4.
I am Sutu, the father of the gods, the imperishable one
5.
Stay, Horus, for he is counted among the gods