I make bright the paths which are in the Horizon and the Hematit in Heaven. I make firm the battlements on behalf of Osiris, and I make the paths bright in his behalf. I have done according to the command that I should come forth to Tattu to see Osiris, and tell him of the fortunes of that great Son of his whom he loveth, and who hath pierced the heart of Sutu. I have seen the death. Yea, I tell them the divine plans which Horus carried out in the absence of his father Osiris. O Lord of the Soul Most Mighty, behold me; I come, raise thou me up that I may see the Tuat. May all the paths which are in Heaven and upon earth be open to me, and let there be no repulse for me. Thou art exalted upon thy throne, Osiris; thine hearing is good, Osiris; thy back is strong, Osiris; thy head, Osiris, is firmly fastened, thy throat is made fast, thine heart is glad, thou art confident in the strength and courage of those around thee. Thou art established in strength as the Bull of Amenta. Thy son Horus is seated upon thy throne, and all that liveth is subject to him. Endless generations are at his service, endless generations are in fear of him; the cycle of the gods is in fear of him, the cycle of the gods is at his service. So saith Tmu, the Sole Force of the gods; not to be altered is that which he hath spoken. Horus is the offering and the altar of offering; twofold of aspect; it is Horus who hath reconstituted his father and restored him. Horus is the father, Horus is the mother, Horus is the brother, Horus is the kinsman. Horus proceedeth from the essence of his father and the corruption which befell him. He ruleth over Egypt, and the gods are in his service. He hath carried off endless generations, and given life to endless generations with his Eye; the sole one of its Lord, the Inviolate one. NOTES. This chapter is seldom found in the complete shape which it has in the Turin _Todtenbuch_. The shortest copy of it is that in the tomb of Horhotep (_Miss. Arch. Fr._, p. 158); it has but a few lines; but they are very important, as giving the earliest form of the formula ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, which is an invocation to the battlements. The common reading, which adds the pronominal suffix ⁂ both to the verb and to its subject, is ungrammatical. The papyri _Au_, _Pg_, and _Ij_, rightly omit the suffix after the verb, in the early part of the chapter. The coffin of Amamu has a chapter of the same title, but with quite a different text. 1. _Sacred Hawk._ Between this and the _Golden Hawk_ of the last chapter the vignettes make no distinction but that of colour, which is indicative of age rather than of kind. The typical Egyptian Hawk may be identified with the Falco Lanarius, or with the Peregrinus, but naturalists tell us that “the Lanier of Buffon is the perfect state of the male Peregrinus,” and that “the Lanner of Pennant is a young female Peregrine.” 2. _Thy powers_, ⁂ _baiu_.