e given light in the
darkness, and I have overthrown the destroying crocodiles. I have sung
praises unto those who dwell in the darkness, I have raised up those who
wept, and who had hidden their faces and had sunk down in wretchedness;
and they did not look then upon me. [Hail, then,] ye beings, I am
Hem-Nu(?), and I will not let you hear concerning the matter. [I] have
opened [the way], I am Hem-Nu(?), [I] have made light the darkness, I have
come, having made an end of the darkness, which hath become light indeed."

Transformation Into A Lotus

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 11).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A LOTUS. The overseer of the
palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, saith:

"I am the pure lotus which springeth up from the divine splendor that
belongeth to the nostrils of Ra. I have made [my way], and I follow on
seeking for him who is Horus. I am the pure one who cometh forth out of
the Field."

Transformation Into A Lotus

[From the Papyrus of Paqrer (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 93).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A LOTUS. Saith Osiris
Paqrer:

"Hail, thou lotus, thou type of the god Nefer-Temu! I am the man that
knoweth you, and I know your names among [those of] the gods, the lords of
the underworld, and I am one of you. Grant ye that [I] may see the gods
who are the divine guide in the Tuat (underworld), and grant ye unto me a
place in the underworld near unto the lords of Amentet. Let me arrive at a
habitation in the land of Tchesert, and receive me, O all ye gods, in the
presence of the lords of eternity. Grant that my soul may come forth
whithersoever it pleaseth, and let it not be driven away from the presence
of the great company of the gods."

Transformation Into Ptah

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheets 9 and 10).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO PTAH, OF EATING CAKES, AND
OF DRINKING ALE, AND OF UNFETTERING THE STEPS, AND OF BECOMING A LIVING
BEING IN ANNU (Heliopolis). The chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant,
saith:

"I fly like a hawk, I cackle like the _smen_ goose, and I perch upon that
abode of the underworld (_aat_) on the festival of the great Being. That
which is an abomination unto me, that which is an abomination unto me, I
have not eaten; filth is an abomination unto me and I have not eaten
thereof, and that which is an abomination unto my _ka_