Appendix
(From the Papyrus of Nu, Sheet 5)
THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE HEART OF NU, WHOSE WORD IS
TRUTH, BE CARRIED AWAY FROM HIM IN KHERT-NETER.
He saith:- Hail, thou Lion-god! I am Unb (the Blossom). That which is held in abomination to
me is the block of slaughter of the god. Let not this my heart-case be carried away from me
by the Fighting Gods in Anu. Hail, thou who dost wind bandages round Osiris, and who hast
seen Set. Hail, thou who returnest after smiting and destroying him before the mighty ones!
This my heart weepeth over itself before Osiris; it hath made supplication for me. I have given
unto him and I have dedicated unto him the thoughts of the heart in the House of the god
(Usekh-her), have brought unto him sand at the entry to Khemenu. Let not this my heart-case
be carried away from me. I make you to ascend his throne, to fetter heart-cases for him in
Sekhet-hetep, [to live] years of strength away from things of all kinds which are abominations
to him, to carry off food from among the things which are thine, and which are in thy grasp
through thy strength. And this my heart-case is devoted to the decrees of the god Tem, who
guideth me through the caverns of Suti, but let not this my heart, which hath performed its
desire before the Tchatcha Chiefs who are in Khert-Neter, be given to him. When they find
the leg and the swathings they bury them.
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