be afraid of me, and may
they fight for me in their habitations. I, even I, am the _Khu_ who
dwelleth with the divine _Khu_, whom the god Tem himself hath created, and
who hath come into being from the blossom (_i.e._, the eyelashes) of his
eye; he hath made to have existence, and he hath made to be glorious
(_i.e._, to be _Khu_s), and he hath made mighty thereby those who have
their existence along with him. Behold, he is the only One in Nu, and they
sing praises (or do homage) unto him [when] he cometh forth from the
horizon, and the gods and the _Khu_s who have come into being along with
him ascribe [the lordship of] terror unto him."
"I am one of those worms(?) which the eye of the Lord, the only One, hath
created. And behold, when as yet Isis had not given birth to Horus, I had
germinated, and had flourished, and I had become aged, and I had become
greater than those who dwelt with the divine _Khu_, and who had come into
being along with him. And I had risen up like the divine hawk, and Horus
made for me a spiritual body containing his own soul, so that I might take
possession of all that belonged unto Osiris in the underworld. The double
Lion-god, the governor of the things which belong to the Temple of the
_nemmes_ crown, who dwelleth in his secret abode, saith [unto me]: 'Get
thee back to the uttermost parts of heaven, for behold, inasmuch as
through thy form of Horus thou hast become a spiritual body, (_sah_) the
_nemmes_ crown is not for thee; but behold, thou hast the power of speech
even to the uttermost parts of heaven.' And I, the guardian, took
possession of the things of Horus [which belonged] unto Osiris in the
underworld, and Horus told aloud unto me the things which his divine
father Osiris spake unto him in years [gone by] on the day of his own
burial. I have given unto thee(50) the _nemmes_ crown through the double
Lion-god that thou mayest pass onward and mayest come to the heavenly
path, and that those who dwell in the uttermost parts of the horizon may
see thee, and that the gods of the underworld may see thee and may fight
for thee in their habitations. And of them is the Auhet.(51) The gods,
each and all of them, who are the warders of the shrine of the Lord, the
only One, have fallen before my words. Hail! He that is exalted upon his
tomb is on my side, and he hath bound [upon my head] the _nemmes_ crown,
by the decree of the double Lion-god on my behalf, and the god Auhet hath
prepared a way
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