Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter XIII

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

I enter as a Hawk and come forth as a Bennu at Dawn

Let the way be made for me that I may adore Râ at the fair Amenta, and the locks of Osiris. I urge on the hounds of Horus

Let the way be made for me that I may adore Osiris, the Lord of Life

This chapter, in the MSS. of which the Turin copy is the type, is repeated as Chapter 121, with the following rubric:—

“Said over an ear-ring of the flower Ânch-amu, put upon the right ear of the deceased person, with another ear-ring, put in fine linen, upon which is written the name of N , on the day of burial.”