1543 To say: Thou who hast smitten (my) father; he who has killed (one) greater than he; 1543 thou hast smitten (my) father, thou hast killed one greater than thou. 1544 Father Osiris N. I have smitten for thee him who smote thee as an ox; 1544 I have killed for thee him who killed thee as a wild-bull. 1544 I have overpowered for thee him who overpowered thee as an ox; 1544 thou art upon his back as he who is upon the back of an ox. 1545 He who stretched thee out as the stretched out ox; he who slaughtered thee as the slaughtered ox; 1545 he who stunned thee as the stunned ox-- 1545 I have cut off his head; I have cut off his tail; 1545 I have cut off his two hands; I have cut off his two feet. 1546 His upper fore-legs including (lit. "being to") his lower forelegs belong t[o Atum], father of the gods; 1546 his two thighs belong to Shu and Tefnut; 1546 his two sides belong to Geb and Nut; 1547 his two shoulder blades belong to Isis and Nephthys; 1547 his two shoulders belong to Mnti-'irti and Hrti,-- 1547 his spinal column belongs to Neit and eret; his heart belongs to Sekhmet, the great; 1548 that which is in the back part of his body belongs to those four gods, the sons of Horus, his beloved, 1548 pi, 'Im.ti, Dw-mw.t.f, b-n.w.f. 1549 His head, his tail, his two hands, his two feet 1549 belong to Anubis, who is upon his mountain; to Osiris who is chief of his department (or, thigh-offering). 1549 That which the gods leave belongs to the Souls of Nekhen and the Souls of Buto. 1550 Eat, eat the red ox, for the voyage by sea, 1550 which Horus did for his father, Osiris N.

No feathers had they, but as of a bat Their fashion was; and he was waving them, So that three winds proceeded forth therefrom. Thereby Cocytus...

Certainly Nature, when she left the making Of animals like these, did well indeed, By taking such executors from Mars; And if of elephants and whales...

Hail to thee, my father Osiris. I have come to embalm thee. Do thou embalm this flesh of mine, for I am perfect like my father Chepera, who is my...

Let me seize that Thigh which is under the place of Osiris, with which I may open the mouth of the gods and sit by him, like Thoth the Scribe, sound...

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...

"And if," continuing his first discourse, "They have that art," he said, "not learned aright, That more tormenteth me, than doth this bed. But fifty t...

Here saw I people, more than elsewhere, many, On one side and the other, with great howls, Rolling weights forward by main force of chest. They...

And what the lords wanted was that they would be cut to pieces by the knives, and would be quickly killed; that is what they Wished in their hearts. B...

My mother placed me servant to a lord, For she had borne me to a ribald knave, Destroyer of himself and of his things. Then I domestic was of good...

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gave...

While I was still the form of bone and pulp My mother gave to me, the deeds I did Were not those of a lion, but a fox. The machinations and the...

The second, tinct of deeper hue than perse, Was of a calcined and uneven stone, Cracked all asunder lengthwise and across. The third, that uppermost...

Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; His heart was visible, and the dismal sack That maketh excrement of what is eaten. While I was all...

Back, serpent Haiu, whom Osiris execrateth. May Thoth cut off thy head, and may there accrue to me whatsoever property proceedeth from thee...

Then it begins venomously to hate the Body, wherein it has borne the Image of God; and many run headlong into the Water, or take a Rope, or a Sword,...

"When to the gods you sacrifice, Selecting what our portion is, 'Tis shame to tell, do ye not take, And both the thighs, clean to the groins, The...

Similarly, repressing our desires, it forbade partaking of fishes which have neither fins nor scales; for these surpass other fishes in fleshiness...

I am the Bull in the Field; I, even I, Osiris, who shut up his father and his mother on the day when the great slaughter took place. My father is Seb...

And they began to be merry.

I wept not, I within so turned to stone; They wept; and darling little Anselm mine Said: 'Thou dost gaze so, father, what doth ail thee?' Still not a...