Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXI
The Chapter of unfastening the opening in the sky. Thoth does it so that it may be finished when he opens (the sky) with Aten
Rā is living, the tortoise is dead. The body has been offered in the earth; the bones have been offered of N. [The West wind of Isis
Rā is living, the tortoise is dead. It is safe that is in the funeral chest of N. [The East wind of Nephthys
Rā is living, the tortoise is dead, the limbs are well wrapped up. Kebehsenef is to keep watch over them for N. [The North wind of Osiris
Rā is living, the tortoise is dead. His wrappings have been opened; they reveal his figure. [The South wind of Rā
Everybody who has these figures on his coffin, the four openings of the sky are open to him; one in the North, it is the wind of Osiris; one in the South, it is the wind of Aah (the moon); one in the West, it is the wind of Isis; one in the East, it is the wind of Nephthys. Every one of these winds, which are at his entrance when he wants it, breathes into his nostrils
Let no one outside know it, it is a mystery which is not known to the common people. Do not reveal it to any one, may he be thy father or thy son, except thyself. It is a real mystery, and every one of these things is unknown to all men
This Chapter is so short in the old recension (Paris, III, 93) that it could hardly be understood without the rubric of the Turin text. The four Thoths, each of whom opens a door, are the four winds, coming from the four cardinal points ( Zeitschr. für Aeg. Sprache , 1877, p. 28