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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter XXXV
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
Oh Shu, here is Tattu, and conversely , under the wig of Hathor. They scent Osiris
2.
Here is the one who is to devour me. They wait apart. The serpent Seksek passeth over me
3.
Osiris is he who prayeth that he may be buried
4.
The eyes of the Great One are bent down, and he doth for thee the work of cleansing; marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues
5.
The translator of this chapter cannot pretend to do more than give an accurate meaning to each word. The true sense of the chapter must have been lost when the earliest copies known to us were written