Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter X

Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE

I cleave the heaven, I open the horizon and I travel over the earth on foot. There come forward to me the Glorious and the Great ones, for I am furnished with numberless Words of Might

I eat with my mouth, and I chew with my jaw; for, lo, I worship the god who is Lord of the Tuat, and that is given to me which endureth amid overthrow