Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose transformations are sublime, whose form is hidden in the temples whose Ka is holy, the Governor of Tetut,[FN#119] the mighty one of possessions (?)in the shrine,[FN#120] the Lord of praises[FN#121] in the nome of Anetch,[FN#122] President of the tchefa food in Anu,[FN#123] Lord who art commemorated in [the town of] Maati,[FN#124] the mysterious (or, hidden) Soul, the Lord of Qerret,[FN#125] the sublime one in White Wall,[FN#126] the Soul of Ra [and] his very body, who hast thy dwelling in Henensu,[FN#127] the beneficent one, who art praised in Nart,[FN#128] who makest to rise up thy Soul, Lord of the Great House in the city[FN#129] of the Eight Gods,[FN#130] [who inspirest] great terror in Shas-hetep,[FN#131] Lord of eternity, Governor of Abtu (Abydos). [FN#119] More fully Pa-Asar-neb-Tetut, the Busiris of the Greeks; Busiris = Pa-Asar, "House of Osiris," par excellence. The variant Tataut also occurs. [FN#120] An allusion, perhaps, to the town Sekhem, the capital of the second nome (Letopolites) of Lower Egypt. [FN#121] i.e., lord whose praises are sung. [FN#122] Letopolites. [FN#123] Heliopolis. [FN#124] i.e., a famous sanctuary in the Letopolite nome where Ptah was worshipped. [FN#125] The region of the First Cataract, where the Nile was believed to rise. [FN#126] Memphis. [FN#127] Herakleopolis, the {hbw XaNeS} of Isaiah. [FN#128] A name of Herakleopolis. [FN#129] Khemenu or Hermopolis, the city of Thoth. [FN#130] These gods were: Nu and Nut; Hehu and Hehut; Kekui and Kekuit; Kerh and Kerhet. [FN#131] The capital of Set, the eleventh nome of Upper Egypt; the chief local deity was Khnemu. Thy seat (or, domain) reacheth far into Ta-tchesert,[FN#132] and thy name is firmly stablished in the mouth[s] of men. Thou art the two- fold substance of the Two Lands[FN#133] everywhere (?), and the divine food (tchef) of the Kau,[FN#134] the Governor of the Companies[FN#135] of the Gods, and the beneficent (or, perfect) Spirit-soul[FN#136] among Spirit-souls. The god Nu draweth his waters from thee,[FN#137] and thou bringest forth the north wind at eventide, and wind from thy nostrils to the satisfaction of thy heart. Thy heart flourisheth, and thou bringest forth the splendour of tchef food. [FN#132] A name of the Other World. [FN#133] i.e., the two Egypts, Upper and Lower. [FN#134] The Doubles of the beatified who are fed by Osiris in the Other World. [FN#135] Three Companies are distinguished: the gods of Heaven, the gods of Earth, and the gods of the Other World. [FN#136] The indestructible, immortal Spirit-soul as opposed to the Ba-soul or animal-soul. [FN#137] Here and in other places I have changed the pronoun of the third person into that of the second to avoid the abrupt changes of the original.