It is certain that from the earliest times Heaven as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘the Great Weeper,’ was considered as the source of life to gods and men. But myths must not be mixed. One must not be considered as the explanation of another. PLATE VIII. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: Papyrus of Ani. INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER XVIII. ] [Illustration: Leyden Papyrus. ] [Illustration: CHAPTER XVIII. =Papyrus Busca.= NAVILLE, “Book of the Dead.” ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE IX BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER XVIII. BRUGSCH, “Thesaurus,” Vol. V, p. 1190.] [Illustration: CHAPTER XIX. =Papyrus du Louvre, 440.= E. DE ROUGÉ, “Études sur le Rituel Funéraire,” p. 14. ] [Illustration: CHAPTER XIX. =Papyrus du Louvre, 3079.= E. DE ROUGÉ, “Études sur le Rituel Funéraire,” p. 13 ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ CHAPTER XVIII. [_Introductory._] _The An-māut(1.) saith_:— I come to you, ye Great Circles of gods(2.) in Heaven, upon Earth and in the World below! I bring to you _N_ void of offence towards any of the gods, grant that he may be with you daily. Glory to Osiris, Lord of Restau, and to the great gods who are in the World below. Here is _N_ who saith:—Hail to thee, Prince of Amenta, Unneferu who presidest in Abydos, I come to thee with Righteousness; without sin upon me. I am not knowingly a speaker of wrong; I am not given to duplicity; grant me Bread, the right of appearance at the tables of the Lords of Maāt, entering in and going out of the Netherworld, and that my soul may not suffer repulse in its devotion to the orb of the Sun and the vision of the Moon-god for ever. _The Se-meri-f saith_:— I come to you, O Circle of gods in Restau, and I bring to you _N_. Grant to him Bread, Water, Air and an allotment in the Sechit-hotepu like Horus. Glory to Osiris, the Lord of Eternity and to the Circle of gods in Restau. Here is _N_ and he saith:—I come to thee, I know thy will, and I am furnished with thine attributes of the Tuat. Grant me an abiding place in the Netherworld by the Lords of Maāt, my permanent allotment in the Sechit-hotepu, and the receiving of cakes before thee. [LITANY.] 1. Oh Thoth, who makest Osiris triumphant over his adversaries, let _N_ be made triumphant over his adversaries, even as thou makest Osiris triumphant over his adversaries, before the Circle of gods about Rā and about Osiris and the Great Circle of gods in Heliopolis, on that Night of the _Eve’s Provender_(3.) and the Night of Battle when there befel the Defeat of the Sebau, and the Day of the extinction of the adversaries of the Inviolate god.