rish nor suffer corruption
forever."

[THESE] WORDS ARE TO BE SAID OVER A SOUL OF GOLD INLAID WITH PRECIOUS
STONES AND PLACED ON THE BREAST OF OSIRIS.

Of Evil Recollections

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 8).]

THE CHAPTER OF DRIVING EVIL RECOLLECTIONS FROM THE MOUTH. The overseer of
the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, the son of the
overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Amen-hetep, triumphant,
saith:

"Hail, thou that cuttest off heads, and slittest brows, thou being who
puttest away the memory of evil things from the mouth of the _Khu_s by
means of the incantations which they have within them, look not upon me
with the [same] eyes with which thou lookest upon them. Go thou round
about on thy legs, and let thy face be [turned] behind thee so that thou
mayest be able to see the divine slaughterers of the god Shu who are
coming up behind thee to cut off thy head, and to slit thy brow by reason
of the message of violence [sent] by thy lord, and to see(?) that which
thou sayest. Work thou for me so that the memory of evil things shall dart
from my mouth; let not my head be cut off; let not my brow be slit; and
let not my mouth be shut fast by reason of the incantations which thou
hast within thee, according to that which thou doest for the _Khu_s
through the incantations which they have within themselves. Get thee back
and depart at the [sound of] the two speeches which the goddess Isis
uttered when thou didst come to cast the recollection of evil things into
the mouth of Osiris by the will of Suti his enemy, saying, 'Let thy face
be toward the privy parts, and look upon that face which cometh forth from
the flame of the Eye of Horus against thee from within the Eye of Tem,'
and the calamity of that night which shall consume thee. And Osiris went
back, for the abomination of thee was in him; and thou didst go back, for
the abomination of him is in thee. I have gone back, for the abomination
of thee is in me; and thou shalt go back, for the abomination of me is in
thee. Thou wouldst come unto me, but I say that thou shalt not advance to
me so that I come to an end, and [I] say then to the divine slaughterers
of the god Shu, 'Depart.' "

Of Rescue

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 6).]

THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE SOUL OF NU, TRIUMPHANT, BE CAPTIVE IN THE
UNDERWORLD. He saith:

"Hail, thou who art exalted! [Hail,] t