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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter CLXV
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
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O the very high one, the great one
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The first-born of the gods on the East of the sky
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Amon who hides his colours, whose forms are mysterious, and who is master of the horns of Horus
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Amon of the Ankak Takashar, Amon the sphinx is thy name. O Amon! I implore thee. Behold, I know thy name; thy forms are in my mouth, and thy colours in my eyes
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Come towards thy offspring, thy form, Osiris N. Bring him towards the gate of eternity, grant him to rest in the Tuat; that his flesh may be entire in the Netherworld; that his soul may be powerful, that his body may be complete, that he may be free from the society of the wicked one, that he may never be fettered
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I implore thy name, and thou art a shield for me; for thou believest that I know thee
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I implore thy name, and as I have given thee to understand (that I know thee), grant me to rest in the Tuat, and that all my limbs be reunited
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Said by the Spirit which is in Nut: I am doing, I am doing all thou hast said
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Said on the figure with raised arm. There are plumes on its head; its legs are apart; its torso is a scarab. It is painted in blue with liquid gum
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Said also on a figure the middle part of which is that of a man; his arms are hanging down. The head of a ram is on his right shoulder, and another on his left shoulder. Thou wilt paint on one bandage the two figures of the god with raised arm, and put it across the chest of the deceased, so that the two painted figures may be on his breast
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He to whom this has been done, the impure ones in the Tuat can do nothing to him. He drinks the running water of the stream, he shines like a star in the sky
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The vignettes consist of the amulets described in the rubrics