NOT HAD
INTERCOURSE WITH WOMEN. AND BEHOLD, THOU SHALT MAKE A SCARAB OF GREEN
STONE, WITH A RIM PLATED(?) WITH GOLD, WHICH SHALL BE PLACED IN THE HEART
OF A MAN, AND IT SHALL PERFORM FOR HIM THE "OPENING OF THE MOUTH." AND
THOU SHALT ANOINT IT WITH _ANTI_ UNGUENT, AND THOU SHALT RECITE OVER IT
[THESE] ENCHANTMENTS:(45)

Of Gaining Mastery Over Enemies

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 15).]

THE CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH BY DAY AND OF GAINING THE MASTERY OVER
ENEMIES. The chancellor-in-chief, Nu, saith:

"Ra sitteth in his habitation of millions of years, and he hath gathered
together the company of the gods, with those divine beings, whose faces
are hidden, who dwell in the Temple of Khepera, who eat the god Bah, and
who drink the drink-offerings which are brought into the celestial regions
of light; and conversely. Grant that I may take possession of the captives
of Osiris, and never let me have my being among the fiends of Suti! Hail,
let me sit upon his folds in the habitation of the god User-ba (_i.e._, he
of the strong Soul)! Grant thou that I may sit upon the throne of Ra, and
let me have possession of my body before the god Seb. Grant thou that
Osiris may come forth triumphant over Suti [and over] the night-watchers
of Suti, and over the night-watchers of the Crocodile, yea the
night-watchers of the Crocodile, whose faces are hidden and who dwell in
the divine Temple of the King of the North in the apparel of the gods on
the sixth day of the festival, whose snares are like unto everlastingness
and whose cords are like unto eternity. I have seen the god Abet-ka
placing the cord; the child is laid in fetters, and the rope of the god
Ab-ka is drawn tight(?) ... Behold me. I am born, and I come forth in the
form of a living _Khu_, and the human beings who are upon the earth
ascribe praise [unto me]. Hail, Mer, who doest these things for me, and
who art put an end to by the vigor of Ra, grant thou that I may see Ra;
grant thou that I may come forth against my enemies; and grant thou that I
may be victorious over them in the presence of the sovereign princes of
the great god who are in the presence of the great god. If, repulsing
[me], thou dost not allow me to come forth against my Enemy and to be
victorious over him before the sovereign princes, then may Hapi--who liveth
upon law and order--not come forth into heaven--now he liveth by Maat--and
may Ra--who feedeth upon fish--not de