Egyptian Book of the Dead - Chapter CXXXVI B

1.

I come daily with Sek-hra from his exalted station, so that I may witness the process of the Maāt and the lion-forms which belong to them ... so that I may see them there

2.

We are rejoicing: their great ones are in jubilation, and their smaller ones in bliss

3.

I make my way at the prow of the Bark of Rā, which lifteth me up like his disk

4.

I shine like the Glorious ones, whom he hath enriched with his wealth, holding fast like a Lord of Maāt

5.

Here is the Cycle of the gods, and the Kite of Osiris

6.

Grant ye that his father, the Lord of them, may judge in his behalf

7.

And so I poise for him the Balance, which is Maāt, and I raise it to Tefnut that he may live

8.

Come, come, for the father is uttering the judgment of Maāt

9.

Oh thou who callest out at thine evening hours, grant that I may come and bring to him the two jaws of Restau, and that I may bring to him the books which are in the Annu and add up for him his hosts

10.

And so I have repulsed Apepi and healed the wounds he made

11.

Let me make my way through the midst of you

12.

I am the Great one among the gods, coming in the two Barks of the Lord of Sau, the Figure of the great saluter, who hath made the Flame

13.

Let the fathers and their Apes make way for me, that I may enter the Mount of Glory, and pass through where the Great ones are

14.

I see who is there in his Bark, and I pass through the orbit of Flame which is behind the Lord of the Side-lock, over the serpents

15.

Let me pass: I am the powerful one, the Lord of the powerful

16.

I am the Sāhu, the Lord of Maāt, the creator of every Dawn

17.

Place me among the followers of Rā: place me as one who goeth round in the Garden of Peace of Rā

18.

I am a god greater than thou art

19.

Let me be numbered in presence of the Divine Cycle when the offerings are presented to me

20.

The two chapters which are numbered by M. Naville as 136 A and 136 B are represented in the later recensions by a single chapter, which has been made out of them. There is very much obscurity in the ancient texts, though the MSS. containing them are numerous, and the more recent versions are quite as difficult to understand. We must be satisfied for the present by a strict literal and grammatical translation, wherever this amount of success is attainable. The royal sarcophagus 32 of the British Museum gives the latest form of 136 A