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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter CXXXVII B
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
The Eye of Horus cometh, the Light one: the Eye of Horus cometh, the Glorious one
2.
Come thou, propitiously, shining like Rā from the Mount of Glory, and putting an end to the opposition of Sutu
3.
The prescription of her who hath raised him up, and seized upon the Light for him, and who putteth an end to the troubles against thee, like the Mount of Glory
4.
These texts are found among the texts preserved in the tomb of Petamenemapt (see Zeitschr. , 1883, Taf. 1), but with various additions, and have been appropriated by the Ritual of Ammon, published by Dr. O. von Lemm
5.
The solemn ceremony of Kindling the Light for the dead is repeatedly mentioned in the Siut inscriptions of Hapit’efae