Chapter XXXV
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Chapter whereby the person is not devoured by a Serpent in the Netherworld.
Here is the one who is to devour me. They wait apart.(3) The serpent Seksek passeth over me.
Here are wormwood bruised(4) and reeds.
Osiris is he who prayeth that he may be buried.
The eyes of the Great One are bent down, and he doth for thee the work of cleansing;(5) marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues.(6)
Notes.
The translator of this chapter cannot pretend to do more than give an accurate meaning to each word. The true sense of the chapter must have been lost when the earliest copies known to us were written.
A well known passage in Cicero’s Topics (93, c. 35) may be quoted here: “Refutatio accusationis, in quae est depositio criminis, Graece στάσις dicitur, Latine status appelletur: in quo insistit, quasi ad repugnandum congressa defensio.”
Perhaps the passage in chapter 30 B, in which “the divine ministrants are said to deal with a man” according to his may have reference to the circumstances of his life.
Chapters like this, however worthless in themselves, contain small fragments highly illustrative of the ideas of the Egyptians at an extremely remote period.
PLATE XII.
PLATE XIII.
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