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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter CXXXVIII
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
Oh all ye gods who are in Abydos, [each one and his] divine circle likewise in its entirety, who are coming with acclamation to meet me: let me see my father Osiris: let me be held as one who cometh forth as of his house
2.
I am Horus, the Lord of Kamit, and the heir of Tesherit, which I have also seized. I, the invincible one, whose eye is potent against his adversaries: who avengeth his father, and is fierce at the drowning of his mother; who smiteth his adversaries and putteth an end to violence on their part
3.
Oh Oh thou of the potent Lock, king of hosts, who art seized of the Two Worlds; whose father’s house is seized [by him] in virtue of the writs; my balance is perfectly even, my voice is law, and I prevail over all mine adversaries