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PLATE XLVII.
BOOK OF THE DEAD.
[Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVIII. =Papyrus of Ani.=]
[Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVIII. =British Museum. Papyrus 9900.=]
[Illustration: CHAPTER CXLVIII. =Louvre, III, 93.=]
[Illustration: CHAPTER CXLIV. =Louvre, III, 89.=]
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CHAPTERS CXLI TO CXLIII.
_The book(1.) said by a man or his father or his son in the festival of
the Amenta, and wherewith he acquires might(2.) with Rā, and with the
gods when he is with them. Said on the day of the new moon, when
offerings are made of bread, beer, oxen, geese, and burnt incense to_
Osiris Chentamenta,
Nu,
Māāt,
The boat of Rā,
Tmu,
The Cycle of the great gods,
The Cycle of the small gods,
Horus the lord of the double diadem,
Shu,
Tefnut,
Seb,
Nut,
Isis,
Nephthys,
The house of the _ka_ of the inviolate god,(3.)
The storm of the sky which raises the god,
The hidden one in her dwelling,
Chebt the mummified form of the god,
The greatly beloved, with red hair,
The abundant in life, the veiled one,
Her whose name is powerful in her works,
The bull of the cows,
The divine force, the good one, the good rudder of the Northern sky,
Him who goes round and piloteth the double earth, the good rudder of
the Western sky,
The shining one, who dwelleth in the house of the devouring monster,
the good rudder of the Eastern sky,
The inner one in the house of the red ones, the good rudder of the
Southern sky,
Emsta,
Hapi,
Tuamautef,
Kebehsenuf,
The Southern part of heaven,
The Northern part of heaven,
The Sektit boat,
The Atit boat,
Thoth,
The gods of the South,
The gods of the North,
The gods of the West,
The gods of the East,
The sejant gods,(4.)
The resting gods,
The great house,
The house of flame,
The gods of the abodes,
The gods of the horizon,
The gods of the field,
The gods of the houses,(5.)
The gods of the thrones,
The ways of the South,
The ways of the North,
The ways of the West,
The ways of the East,
The halls of the Tuat,
The holds of the Tuat,
The mysterious doors,
The doorkeepers of the halls of the Tuat,
Those with hidden faces, the guards of the roads,
The guardians of those who are lamenting,
The guardians of those whose faces are joyous,(6.)
The burning ones who put the flame on the altar,
The door openers who extinguish the flames in the Amenta,
Osiris Unneferu,(7.)
Osiris the living,
Osiris the lord of life,
Osiris the inviolate god,
Osiris in Kau,
Osiris Orion,
Osiris Sep,
Osiris in Tanenit,
Osiris in the South,
Osiris in the North,
Osiris creator of millions of men,
Osiris the spirit in the crouching figure (?),
Osiris Ptah lord of life,
Osiris in Restau,
Osiris inside the mountain,
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