I bring in offering to you perfume, incense and natron. Stop ye the outpourings of your hearts against me. I am come to put a stop to all the wrong things which are in your hearts, and to do away with the false charges which have been made to you. But I bring in offering to you well-being.[89] I lift up in offering to you Maāt. I know you and I know your names, and I know your attributes, though it be not known what by you may be brought to pass. I come before you and make my appearance as that god in the form of a man who liveth like a god, and I stand out before you in the form of that god who is raised high upon his pedestal, to whom the gods come with acclamation, and the female deities with jubilation, when they see him. I come before you and make my appearance on the seat of Rā, and I sit upon my seat which is on the Horizon, and receive the offerings upon their altars. I drink the sacred liquor each evening, in the form of the Lord of all creatures, and I am exalted like that venerable god the Lord of the Great House, whom the gods rejoice at seeing at his beautiful comings forth from the womb of Nut, to whom Nut each day giveth birth. ----- Footnote 89: Perhaps rather _glory_, _splendour_,⁂⁂⁂⁂, which implies something to be _seen_. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER LXXX. _Chapter whereby one assumeth the form of the god who giveth Light to the Darkness._ It is I who complete the vesture of Nu, the Light which shineth before him, lighting up the darkness. I unite with the two brother-gods who are upon me through the mighty Words of Power of my mouth. I raise up the fallen one who cometh after me. I fall along with him in the vale of Abydos when I go to rest. I have seized upon Hu from the place in which I found him. And I have lifted off the darkness through my power. I have rescued the Eye from its eclipse against the coming of the Fifteenth day, and balanced Sutu in the mansions above, against the Great one who is with him. I have equipped Thoth [with light] in the house of the Moon. I seize upon the Crown. Maāt is upon me, and the Emerald and the Crystal of her months. This field of mine is of Azure in the festival thereof. I lighten up the darkness and overthrow the devouring monsters.(1.) Those who are in their own darkness worship me, and they rise up to me, covering their faces, who mourn and are prostrate: look ye therefore upon me. I am the Craftsman(2.) of Nu, but I come not up in order that you should hear of this. I am the Craftsman of Nu, who lighteneth the darkness, and I have come to dissipate the darkness, and that light should be. NOTES. 1. _Devouring monsters_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. 2. The later recensions have ⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ _wife_. The older papyri omit the feminine ending, which is inconsistent with the rest of the chapter. I understand ⁂ or ⁂⁂, in the sense of artist, craftsman.