Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIII A (22.)
Behold I have come, I sit in the boat of Rā, I sail on the lake of Cha and on the lake of the Northern sky
A Series Of Reed-floats And Ferryman Texts, Utterances 503-522 (504-505)
1082 To say: The sky is pregnant with the wine juice of the vine; 1082 Nut has given birth to (it) as her daughter, the morning star. 1082 I also...
(504) 1082 To say: The sky is pregnant with the wine juice of the vine; 1082 Nut has given birth to (it) as her daughter, the morning star. 1082 I also arise; 1082 the third is Sothis of the pure places. 1083 I have purified myself in the lakes of the dancers(?) singers(?) or, panegyrists(?), 1083 I have cleansed myself in the lakes of the jackal. 1083 Thorn-bush, remove thyself from my way, 1084 that I may take the south side of the Marsh of Reeds. 1084 The m3'-canal is opened, the Winding Watercourse is inundated. 1084 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus, 1084 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for him of the horizon, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus sm.t, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon. 1085 The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for Horus of the East, 1085 that he may ferry over to R`, to the horizon, 1086 The two reed-floats of heaven shall be placed for me, I, Horus of the gods, 1086 that I also may ferry over to R`, to the horizon, 1086 and that I may take my throne, which is in the Marsh of Reeds. 1087 I descend to the south side of the Marsh of Offerings. 1087 I am a Great One, son of a Great One; 1087 I am come forth from between the thighs of the Two Enneads. 1087 I have adored R`; I have adored Horus of the East; 1087 I have adored Horus of the horizon, 1088 as he girded himself with the apron, 1088 that he might be gracious to me, that he might be gracious to "Horus-on-his-throne(?)," 1088 that he might be gracious to "Horus-on-his-throne(?)," that he might be gracious to me.
(505) 1089 To say: I am come forth from Buto, to the Souls of Buto, 1089 adorned with the adornment of Horus, 1089 clothed with the clothes of Thot. 1089 Isis is before me; Nephthys is behind me; 1090 Wp-w-wt opens the way for me; 1090 Shu lifts me up; 1090 the Souls of Heliopolis construct a stairway for me, 1090 to unite with the Above (i.e. to reach the top); 1090 Nut gives her arm to me as she did for Osiris 1090 the day that he landed there. 1091 O thou whose face is behind thee, ferry me over to the Marsh of Reeds. 1091 Whence art thou come here? I am come from wr.t; 1091 my companion is the uraeus-serpent, who comes forth from the god, the 'i`r.t-serpent, who comes forth from R`. 1092 Ferry me over; put me in the Marsh of Reeds- 1092 those four spirits who are with me- 1092 pi, Dw-mw-t-f, 'Im.ti, b-n.w.f- 1092 two on this side, two on that side 1093 (and) I will be the rudder. I find the Two Enneads. 1093 It is, they who give me their arm; 1093 I sit between them to give judgment; 1093 I command those whom I find there.