CHAPTER IX. _Chapter for opening the Tuat._ O Soul most mighty,(1.) here am I: I am come to thee that I may see thee. I open the Tuat that I may see my father Osiris and may drive away the darkness. I am he whom he loveth. I have come to see my father Osiris, to pierce the heart of Sutu, and to perform all duties to my father Osiris. I open all the paths in heaven and upon earth. I am the son who loveth his father, and I am come as a mummied one, glorious and well equipt. Oh, all ye gods and goddesses, the path is made for me. NOTE. 1. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘Soul most mighty,’ is one of the principal names of Osiris. The whole chapter is spoken in the person of Horus, the son of Osiris. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER X. _Chapter for coming forth victoriously._ I come forth victoriously against the adversaries. I cleave the heaven, I open the horizon and I travel over the earth on foot. There come forward to me the Glorious and the Great ones, for I am furnished with numberless Words of Might. I eat with my mouth, and I chew with my jaw; for, lo, I worship the god who is Lord of the Tuat, and that is given to me which endureth amid overthrow. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XI. _Chapter for coming out against the adversary in the Netherworld._ Here is the Osiris _N_. O Eater of his arm: away from his path! I am Râ coming forth from the horizon against his adversary, who shall not be delivered from me. I have stretched out my hand, as the Lord of the Crown, and lifted my feet. I shall not be given up; my adversary shall fall before me; he hath been given up to me and shall not be delivered from me. I rise up like Horus, I sit down as Ptah, I am victorious as Thoth, and powerful as Tmu: I walk upon my feet, I speak with my mouth, searching for him who hath been given up to me; he shall not be delivered from me. NOTE. There is unfortunately no early text of this chapter, which we have in a very corrupt form, and can only restore conjecturally. The Eater of his arm is evidently Darkness, which is destroyed by the Sun. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XII. _Chapter for entering and for coming forth out of the Netherworld._ Salutation to thee, O Râ, who guardest the secrets of the gates(1.) over this domain of Seb, and this Balance with which Râ raiseth up Maât (2.) daily: Here am I, who cleave open(3.) the earth, grant that I may come and acquire advance in age.(4.) NOTES. This chapter, like the next, occurs only in _Pa_ among the older MSS. It comes twice in the Turin copy, being repeated as Chapter 120. 1. So _Pa_; the Turin copy has ‘the Tuat.’