Hail to thee, venerable god, great and beneficent prince of eternity, in his abode in the Sektit boat. Acclamations are given him in the sky and on earth; he is exalted by the past and present. Great is the fear he inspires in the hearts of men, of the Glorified and of the dead. His soul was given him in Tattu, his might in Heracleopolis, his image in Heliopolis, and his power over forms(1.) in the double sanctuary. I have come to thee; my heart holds right, my heart contains no falsehood. Give me to be among the living, to navigate up and down in thy train. NOTES. I have given No. 185 to a hymn to Osiris, with which many papyri begin, but which occasionally comes just before the representation of the cow in the West. There seems to have been no canonical text for that hymn, in which the writer was left to follow his imagination. The hymn here given is one of the most complete. It is taken from the papyrus of Sutimes in Paris. The vignette represents always Osiris in a shrine, with worshippers before him. 1. ⁂⁂⁂⁂, litt., “his greatness of forms.” I suppose it means his power of taking all the forms he likes. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLXXXVI. _Adoration to Hathor, the lady of the West, falling down before Mehurit._ I have come to thee, to see thy beauties, give me to be at the head of thy followers and among thy divine attendants. NOTES. A great many papyri end with a picture representing Hathor of the West, in company of the goddess Thueris coming out of the mountain where the burial is to take place. The text, which is generally very corrupt, as if the writer had neglected the words for the picture, is an adoration to Hathor, which varies in its form. The text here translated is taken from a papyrus at Leyden. The vignette is taken from the papyrus of Ani. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note There are sixty two plates, some spanning facing pages. They were not bound in strict sequential order. They were not considered in the pagination. Since they are not available in this medium, the captions have been shifted to avoid falling with paragraphs. Please note that Chapter CX, appearing at pp 193-195 in the orginal, is out of sequence with Chapters CXI-CXVI. At 63.14, the Western Syriac word ⁂ is rendered as ܐܷܠܴ. The text of each chapter is glossed with chapter endnotes. The scheme was not cleanly followed. Fortunately, each note repeats a phrase in the text, so the references can usually be traced.