Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter C

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

Let me convey the divine Heron to the East, Osiris to Tattu. Let me open the caverns of Hāpu, clear the path of the Solar Orb and tow along Sekaru upon his sledge. Let the Great one give me strength at her fixed hour

I hail and give worship to the Orb, and associate myself with those in adoration, I am one of them

Let me be a second to Isis; and let her glorified ones give me strength

Let me fasten my tackle, let me stop the adversary, and force him to turn back his steps

Let Rā lend me his two hands, let not his divine Boatmen prevent me. Let my strength be that of the divine Eye, and conversely

As to the sundering of me in the Bark of Rā, let the sundering be as that of the Egg and the Tortoise

Said over the Figure in the Text, which is written upon clean paper, with artist’s ink, fresh and mixed with essence of Ānta; let the dead person have it put upon his body without inserting it into his limbs; he will enter into the Bark of Rā at the round of each day, Thoth will appreciate him, on his coming forth or entering, undeviatingly for times infinite