Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.Myer, Isaac
Religion
Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Myer, Isaac
Egypt -- Religion; Scarabaeus; Symbolism
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me by the Divine
Champions[F] in Heliopolis.
O thou who clothest Osiris and hast seen Sutu.
O thou who turnest back after having smitten him, and hast
accomplished the overthrow.
This Whole Heart of mine remaineth weeping over itself in (the)
presence of Osiris.
Its strength proceedeth from him, it hath obtained it by prayer
from him.
I have had granted to it and awarded to it, the glow of heart at
the hour of the god of the Broad Face, and have offered the
sacrificial cakes in Hermopolis.
Let not this Whole Heart of mine be torn from me.[G] It is I who
entrust to you its place, and vehemently stir your Whole Heart
towards it in Sechit-hotepit and the years of triumph over all
that it abhors, and taking all provisions at thine appointed
time from thine hand after thee.
And this Whole Heart of mine is laid upon the tablets of Tmu,
who guideth me to the caverns of Sutu and who giveth me back my
Whole Heart which hath accomplished its desire in (the) presence
of the Divine Circle which is in the Netherworld.
The sacrificial joint and the funereal raiment, let those who
find them bury them.
CHAPTER XXIXA.
_Chapter whereby the Heart of a person may not be taken from him
in the Netherworld._
Back thou Messenger[H] of thy god! Art thou come to carry off by
violence this Whole Heart of mine, of the Living.[I] The gods
have regard to my offerings and fall upon their faces, all
together, upon their own earth.[J]
Certain chapters referring to the Heart were incised upon hard
precious stones,[K] and used as amulets and talisman. The XXVIth
upon Lapis-lazuli, the XXVIIth on green Felspar, the XXXth on
Serpentine. The following was usually incised on Carnelian.
CHAPTER XXIXB.
_Chapter of the Heart; upon Carnelian._
I am the Heron, the Soul of Ra, who conducts the Glorious ones
to the Tuat.
It is granted to their Souls (_Baiu?_) to come forth upon the
Earth, to do whatsoever their Genius (_Ka?_) willeth.
It is granted to the Soul (_Ba?_) of the Osiris (the name of the
deceased was inserted here) to come forth upon the Earth to do
whatsoever his Genius (_Ka?_) willeth.
CHAPTER XXXA.
_Chapter whereby the Heart of a person is not kept back from him
in the Netherworld._
Heart mine which is that of my Mother, Whole Heart mine which
was that of my coming upon Earth,
Let there be no estoppel against me through evidence; let not
hindrance be made to me by the Divine Circle; let there not be a
fall of the Scale[L] against me in (the) presence of the great
god, Lord of Amenta.
Hail, to thee, Heart mine; Hail to thee, Whole Heart mine, Hail
to thee, Liver mine!
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