Part 3 — CHAPTER CXXXI.
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Chapter whereby one proceedeth into Heaven by the side of Rā.(1)
Oh Rā(2) who art shining this night: if there be any one among thy followers, let him present himself living as a follower of Thoth, who causeth Horus to come forth this night.
The heart of the Osiris is glad, because he is one at the head of them.
His adversaries are brought to a stop by the warriors(3) of the Osiris N, who is a follower of Rā, and hath taken his arms of steel.
He cometh to thee, his father Rā, he followeth Shu and calleth for the Crown. He putteth on Hu(4) and is arrayed with the Lock which is on the path of Rā and is his glory.
And he arriveth at the Aged one, at the confines of the Mount of Glory, and the crown awaiteth him.
The Osiris N raiseth it up.
Thy Soul is with thee, and strong is thy Soul through the terror and the might which belong to thee, Oh Osiris N, who utterest the decrees which Rā hath spoken in Heaven.
Hail to thee, great god in the East of Heaven, who enterest into the Bark of Rā in the form of the Divine Hawk and executest the decrees which have been uttered; thou who strikest with thy sceptre from thy Bark.
The Osiris N entereth into thy Bark and saileth peacefully to the Fair West; and Tmu saith to him: Art thou coming in?
Mehenit is millions upon millions in length from Amur to Ta-ur(5) an endless river wherein the gods move.
(6) ... whose path is in the fire; and they travel in the fire who come behind him.
Notes.
The question might as pertinently be asked: how can Horus (in the very same line) be said to come forth in the night? The answer to both these questions is that the Sun, whether as Rā or as Horus or Osiris, shines in the night through the agency of Thoth, the Moon. For further information see Notes to next chapter.
The length ‘from West to East’ is described as ‘from Amur to Taur’ . Amur is known from many texts to signify the West (see supra, Chapter 64, note 13). 263The East is known as Ta-ur or Ta-urit. The royal Ritual at Abydos (Mariette, I. 37) says . And as one of the values of the sign is ta as in (Louvre, B. 14), I feel sure that we should read Ta-ur (or in the feminine Ta-urit) rather than Nif-ur or Nif-urit, even in such passages as those quoted supra in Chapter 128, notes 1 and 2, which have no necessary references to earthly geography.
