Of The Crocodile

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

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A CROCODILE. The
chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

"I am the divine crocodile which dwelleth in his terror, I am the divine
crocodile, and I seize [my prey] like a ravening beast. I am the great and
Mighty Fish which is in the city of Qem-ur. I am the lord to whom bowing
and prostrations [are made] in the city of Sekhem."

Soul And Body

[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 17).]

THE CHAPTER OF CAUSING THE SOUL TO BE UNITED TO ITS BODY IN THE
UNDERWORLD. The Osiris Ani, triumphant, saith:

"Hail, thou god Anniu (_i.e._, Bringer)! Hail, thou god Pehrer (_i.e._,
Runner), who dwellest in thy hall! [Hail,] great God! Grant thou that my
soul may come unto me from wheresoever it may be. If [it] would tarry,
then let my soul be brought unto me from wheresoever it may be, for thou
shalt find the Eye of Horus standing by thee like unto those beings who
are like unto Osiris, and who never lie down in death. Let not the Osiris
Ani, triumphant, lie down in death among those who lie down in Annu, the
land wherein souls are joined unto their bodies even in thousands. Let me
have possession of my _ba_ (soul), and of my _khu_, and let me triumph
therewith in every place wheresoever it may be. [Observe these things
which [I] speak, for it hath staves with it];(55) observe then, O ye
divine guardians of heaven, my soul [wheresoever it may be].(56) If it
would tarry, do thou make my soul to look upon my body,(57) for thou shalt
find the Eye of Horus standing by thee like those [beings who are like
unto Osiris]."

"Hail, ye gods, who tow along the boat of the lord of millions of years,
who bring [it] above the underworld and who make it to travel over Nut,
who make souls to enter into [their] spiritual bodies, whose hands are
filled with your ropes and who clutch your weapons tight, destroy ye the
Enemy; thus shall the boat of the sun be glad and the great God shall set
out on his journey in peace. And behold, grant ye that the soul of Osiris
Ani, triumphant, may come forth before the gods and that it may be
triumphant along with you in the eastern part of the sky to follow unto
the place where it was yesterday; [and that it may have] peace, peace in
Amentet. May it look upon its material body, may it rest upon its
spiritual body; and may its body neither pe