I am Sahu, who assigneth the bounds as he saileth round the starry throng of Heaven, the body of my mother Nut, who conceived me at her will and brought me forth at her desire. I am Anubis on the day of the Rending asunder. I am the Bull in the Field; I, even I, Osiris, who shut up his father and his mother on the day when the great slaughter took place. My father is Seb and my mother is Nut. I am Horus, the eldest of Rā as he riseth. I am Anubis on the day of Rending asunder: I am Osiris. O great One, who enterest and speakest to him who presenteth the tablets and guardeth the door of Osiris,(2.) grant that I may come in and be glorified, let me be appraised, and let me be made vigorous, that I may come and avenge myself. Let me sit at the cradle(3.) of Osiris, and put an end to my suffering and pain; let me be made strong and vigorous at the cradle of Osiris, so that I may be born with him and renewed. _Said twice._ Let me seize that Thigh(4.) which is under the place of Osiris, with which I may open the mouth of the gods and sit by him, like Thoth the Scribe, sound of heart,(5.) with thousands of loaves, beer, beef, and fowl upon the table of my father, and the flesh of oxen and birds of various kinds,(6.) which I offer to Horus, which I present to Thoth, and which I sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven. ----- Footnote 81: _Cf._ note on the _Ass_ of Chapter 40. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXX. _Another Chapter._ I have come to an end(7.) for the Lord of Heaven. I am written down as sound of heart, and I rest at the table of my father Osiris, King of Tattu, and my heart is stirred by his country. I breathe the eastern breeze by its hair(8.); I grasp the north wind by its side lock; I grasp the south wind by the skin as I make the circuit of heaven on its four sides; I seize the east wind by the skin, and I give the breezes to the faithful dead amid those who eat bread. _If this scripture is known upon earth he will come forth by day, he will walk upon earth amid the living: his name will be uninjured for ever._ ce NOTES TO CHAPTERS LXIX AND LXX. These last two chapters are always found together, and always appended to the ancient Chapter 68. This is the case not only in the papyri, but in tombs like that of Bakenrenef. 1. The later texts say “the eldest of the five gods.” 2. _Who presenteth the tablets and guardeth the door of Osiris._ See picture of Thoth in the Psychostasia. 3. Where Osiris renews his birth. 4. _The Thigh._ The iron instrument so called used in the ceremony of ‘Opening the mouth’ of the deceased. 5. _Sound of heart_ implies that the conscience of the deceased has been recognized as blameless. 6. _Oxen and birds of various kinds._ These kinds are named in the text, but we have no corresponding European names.