Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIII B
I am that ready Rudder wherewith Râ conveyeth the Ancient ones, and I raise the effluxes of Osiris to the Tank from flames impassable; a wrecked one, but not to be consumed
I lie helpless as a dead person, and I arrive at the lair of the Lion who defieth slaughter, ... following the road by which I set out