Chapter XXVIII
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Chapter whereby the Heart of a person is not taken from him in the Netherworld.
O Lion-god!
I am Unbu(1), and what I abominate is the block of execution.
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me by the divine Champions(2) in Heliopolis!
O thou who clothest(3) Osiris and hast seen Sutu:
O thou who turnest back after having smitten him, and hast accomplished the overthrow:
This Whole Heart of mine remaineth weeping over itself in presence of Osiris.
Its strength proceedeth from him, it hath obtained it by prayer from him.
I have had granted to it and awarded to it the glow of heart at the hour of the god of the Broad Face, and have offered the sacrificial cakes in Hermopolis.
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me.(4) It is I who entrust to you its place, and vehemently stir your Whole Hearts towards it in Sechit-hotepit and the years of triumph over all that it abhors and taking all provisions at thine appointed time from thine hand after thee.
71And this Whole Heart of mine is laid upon the tablets(5) of Tmu, who guideth me to the caverns of Sutu and who giveth me back my Whole Heart which hath accomplished its desire in presence of the divine Circle which is in the Netherworld.
The sacrificial joint and the funereal raiment, let those who find them bury them.(6)
Notes.
Like many other portions of the book this chapter is hopelessly corrupt, and the scribes did not understand it better than we do. They have probably mixed up different recensions without regard to grammatical sense. The deceased addresses gods in the plural , but immediately afterwards we have the singular suffix .
But there is another word, (Denkm., III, 65 a), which signifies a stand upon which objects are placed.
