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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter LXIII B
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
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
2.
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
3.
The Chapters 63 A and 63 B are united into one in the later MSS. without any other division than , indicative of a different reading. None of the early papyri contains both chapters. The text of 63 B is extremely corrupt, and without rational interpretation