The Chapter Of Advancing To The Tchatchau Chiefs
Of Osiris
The Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- I have built a house for my Ba-soul in the
sanctuary in Tetu. I sow seed in the town of Pe (Buto). I have ploughed the fields with my
labourers. My palm tree [standeth upright and is] like Menu upon it. I abominate abominable
things. I will not eat the things which are abominations unto me. What I abominate is filth: I will
not eat it. I shall not be destroyed by the offerings of propitiation and the sepulchral meals. I
will not approach filth [to touch it] with my hands, I will not tread upon it with my sandals. For
my bread shall be made of the white barley, and my ale shall be made from the red grain of the
god Hapi (the Nile-god), which the Sektet Boat and the Atett Boat shall bring [unto me], and
I will eat my food under the leaves of the trees whose beautiful arms I myself do know. O
what splendour shall the White Crown make for me which shall be lifted up on me by the
Uraei-goddesses! O Doorkeeper of Sehetep-taui, bring thou to me that wherewith the cakes
of propitiation are made. Grant thou to me that I may lift up the earth. May the Spirit-souls
open to me [their] arms, and let the Company of the Gods hold their peace whilst the
Hememet spirits hold converse with the Osiris Ani. May the hearts of the gods lead him in his
exalted state into heaven among the gods who appear in visible forms. If any god, or any
goddess, attack the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, when he setteth out, the Ancestor of the
year who liveth upon hearts [Osiris] shall eat him when he cometh forth from Abydos, and the
Ancestors of Ra shall reckon with him, and the Ancestors of Light shall reckon with him. [He
is] a god of splendour [arrayed in] the apparel of heaven, and he is among the Great Gods.
Now the subsistence of the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, is among the cakes and the ale
which are made for your mouths. I enter in by the Disk, I come forth by the god Ahui. I shall
hold converse with the Followers of the Gods. I shall hold converse with the Disk. I shall hold
converse with the Hememet-spirits. He shall set the terror of me in the thick darkness, in the
inside of the goddess Mehurt, by the side of his forehead. Behold, I shall be with Osiris, and
my perfection shall be his perfection among the Great Gods. I shall speak unto him with the
words of men, I shall listen, and he shall repeat to me the words of the gods. I, the Osiris Ani,
whose word is truth, in peace, have come equipped. Thou makest to approach [thee] those
who love thee. I am a Spirit-soul who is better equipped than any [other] Spirit-soul.
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