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The Egyptian Book of the dead

Part II.

P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation

1. Oh thou of long strides, who makest thine appearance in Annu; I am not a doer of wrong.

2. Oh thou who holdest the fire, and makest thine appearance in Cher-āba; I am not a man of violence.

3. Oh thou of the Nose,(11) who makest thine appearance at Chemunnu; I am not evil minded.

4. Oh Eater of the Shadow,(12) who makest thine appearance at Elephantine; I am not rapacious.

5. Oh thou Facing-backward god, who makest thine appearance at Re-Stau; I am not a slayer of men.

6. Oh thou of Lion form,(13) who makest thine appearance in Heaven; I am not fraudulent in measures of grain.

7. Oh thou whose eyes [pierce] like swords, who makest thine appearance in Sechem; I commit no fraud.

8. Oh thou of fiery face, whose motion is backwards; I am not a robber of sacred property.

9. Oh Breaker of bones, who makest thine appearance in Sutenhunen, I am not a teller of lies.

10. Oh thou who orderest the flame, who makest thine appearance in Memphis; I am not a robber of food.

11. Oh thou of the Two Caverns, who makest thine appearance in Amenta; I am not sluggish.(14)

12. Oh thou of the Bright Teeth,(15) who makest thine appearance in the Unseen Land; I am not a transgressor.

13. Oh Eater of Blood, who makest thine appearance at the Block; I have not slaughtered the sacred animals.

21514. Oh Eater of Livers, who makest thine appearance at Mâbit; I deal not fraudulently.

15. Oh Lord of Righteousness, who makest thine appearance in the place of Righteousness; I am not a land-grabber.

16. Oh thou who turnest backwards, who makest thine appearance in Bubastis; I am not an eaves-dropper.

17. Oh Âati,(16) who makest thine appearance at Annu; I am not one of prating tongue.

18. Oh Tutu,(17) who makest thine appearance in Ati; I trouble myself(18) only with my own affairs.

19. Oh Uammetu, who makest thine appearance at the Block; I commit not adultery with another’s wife.

20. Oh Maa-antu-f, who makest thine appearance in Pa-Amsu, I am not unchaste with any one.

21. Oh thou who art above Princes, and who makest thine appearance in Amu;(19) I do not cause terrors.

22. Oh Chemiu,(20) who makest thine appearance in Kauu; I am not a transgressor.

23. Oh thou who raisest thy voice,(21) and makest thine appearance in Urit; I am not hot of speech.

24. Oh divine Babe, who makest thy appearance in Annu; I lend not a deaf ear to the words of Righteousness.

25. Oh high-voiced one, who makest thy appearance in Unsit; I am not boisterous in behaviour.

26. Oh Basit, who makest thine appearance at the Shetait; I am not the cause of weeping to any.

27. Oh thou whose face is behind thee, and who makest thine appearance at thy cavern; I am not given to unnatural lust.

28. Oh thou, hot of foot,(22) who makest thy appearance at even; I indulge not in anger.

29. Oh Kenemtu, who makest thine appearance in Kenemit; I am not given to cursing.

30. Oh thou who carriest thine own offering, and makest thine appearance in Syut; I am not of aggressive hand.

31. Oh thou who hast different faces, and makest thine appearance in Net’efit; I am not one of inconstant mind.(23)

32. Oh Busy one, who makest thine appearance at Utenit; I do not steal the skins of the sacred animals.(24)

33. Oh thou Horned one, who makest thine appearance at Sais I am not noisy(25) in my speech.

21634. Oh Nefertmu, who makest thine appearance in Memphis; I am neither a liar nor a doer of mischief.

35. Oh Tem-sepu, who makest thine appearance in Tattu; I am not one who curseth the king.

36. Oh thou who doest according to thine own will, and makest thine appearance in Tebuu; I put no check upon the water in its flow.

37. Oh Striker,(26) who makest thine appearance in Heaven; I am not one of loud voice.

38. Oh thou who makest mortals to flourish, and who makest thine appearance at Sais; I curse not a god.

39. Oh thou of beautiful shoulder, who makest thine appearance at ...(27); I am not swollen with pride.

40. Oh Neheb-kau, who makest thy appearance at thy cavern; I have no unjust preferences.(28)

41. Oh thou of raised head,(29) who makest thine appearance at thy cavern; I have no strong desire except for my own property.

42. Oh thou who liftest an arm,(30) and who makest thine appearance in the Netherworld, I do not that which offendeth the god of my domain.

PLATE XXXVII.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · 15. Thou of the Bright Teeth, . The Demotic equivalent is, “who openeth his teeth,” and so exhibits their brightness. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 2 · Thou of the Nose, or rather Beak, , in allusion to one of the chief characteristic features of the Ibis god (πρόσωπον ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἐπίγρυποNote 3 · Eater of the Shadow. The Demotic version interprets this of “his own shadow.” I am rather inclined to interpret it by “the gnomons which werNote 4 · Thou of Lion form, . The Demotic has “Shu and Tefnut.” But as there are only forty-two gods in all, we must here think of a single god with Note 5 · Sluggish, ; , , sluggishness. Coptic ϭⲛⲁⲩ. See my note (Proc. Soc. Bib. Arch., XI, p. 76) on the Inscription of Kum el Ahmar. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Note 6 · Âati, , a name about which the copyists have bungled. It is one of the names of Râ in the Solar Litany, where it appears (l. 23) as , or . WNote 7 · 23417. Ṭuṭu, , with many variants, showing that the scribes did not understand the sense of the syllable , some of them adding the bird of eNote 8 · I trouble myself only with my own affairs. I understand this of the virtue spoken of by Cicero (de Officiis, I, 34), “nihil praeter suum negNote 9 · Amu, or Amit, , , . This seems to be the favourite reading. It means the town of Palm. But, as the name was written ideographically, it appeNote 10 · Chemiu, , ‘one who overthrows.’ His appearance is made at Kauu, , the Canobic entrance to the Nile, which the Libyan invaders had taken possNote 11 · 23621. Who raisest thy voice ... words of Righteousness, is an attribute assigned to Isis in the Hymn to Osiris (line 14) on the Stele of AmNote 12 · Hot of foot . ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 13 · Of inconstant mind, . ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 14 · Another intelligible reading of the precept is, “I rob not the dead of their wrappings”; but the text is so corrupt that none of the readingNote 15 · Noisy in speech . ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 16 · Striker . A name of Horus, on which see ch. 103, note. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 17 · There is no locality about which there is any agreement between the older papyri, and many of them omit the mention of a locality; later autNote 18 · No unjust preferences, . There is no virtue more frequently extolled on the funereal monuments than the absence of favouritism. Great personNote 19 · Of raised head, , , or (B.M. 9971) . This, like the last two, is a name of the Nile god, who is one of the manifestations of Osiris. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂Note 20 · Who liftest an arm, , not ‘amener son bras.’ , like the Greek φέρειν, means bear in the sense of holding up, supporting. 240When it signifie
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