READ, AND WINE, AND CAKES SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO HIM AT
THE ALTAR OF THE GREAT GOD, AND FIELDS, AND AN ESTATE [SOWN] WITH WHEAT
AND BARLEY, WHICH THE FOLLOWERS OF HORUS SHALL REAP FOR HIM. AND HE SHALL
EAT OF THAT WHEAT AND BARLEY, AND HIS LIMBS SHALL BE NOURISHED THEREWITH,
AND HIS BODY SHALL BE LIKE UNTO THE BODIES OF THE GODS, AND HE SHALL COME
FORTH INTO SEKHET-AARRU IN ANY FORM WHATSOEVER HE PLEASETH, AND HE SHALL
APPEAR THEREIN REGULARLY AND CONTINUALLY.

Of Entering The Boat Of Ra

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheets 27 and 28).]

THE BOOK OF MAKING PERFECT THE _KHU_ AND OF CAUSING HIM TO GO FORTH INTO
THE BOAT OF RA ALONG WITH THOSE WHO ARE IN HIS FOLLOWING(?). The overseer
of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

"I have brought the divine _Bennu_ to the east, and Osiris to the city of
Tattu. I have opened the treasure-houses of the god Hap, I have made clean
the roads of the Disk, and I have drawn the god Sekeri along upon his
sledge. The mighty and divine Lady hath made me strong at her hour. I have
praised and glorified the Disk, and I have united myself unto the divine
apes who sing at the dawn, and I am a divine Being among them. I have made
myself a counterpart of the goddess Isis, and her power (_Khu_) hath made
me strong. I have tied up the rope, I have driven back Apep, I have made
him to walk backward. Ra hath stretched out to me both his hands, and his
mariners have not repulsed me; my strength is the strength of the
_Utchat_, and the strength of the _Utchat_ is my strength. If the overseer
of the house, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, be separated [from
the boat of Ra], then shall he (_i.e._, Ra) be separated from the Egg and
from the _Abtu_ fish."

[THIS CHAPTER] SHALL BE RECITED OVER THE DESIGN WHICH HATH BEEN DRAWN
ABOVE, AND IT SHALL BE WRITTEN UPON PAPYRUS WHICH HATH NOT BEEN WRITTEN
UPON, WITH [INK MADE OF] GRAINS OF GREEN _ABUT_ MIXED WITH _ANTI_ WATER,
AND THE PAPYRUS SHALL BE PLACED ON THE BREAST OF THE DECEASED; IT SHALL
NOT ENTER IN TO (_I.E._, TOUCH) HIS MEMBERS. IF THIS BE DONE FOR ANY
DECEASED PERSON HE SHALL GO FORTH INTO THE BOAT OF RA IN THE COURSE OF THE
DAY EVERY DAY, AND THE GOD THOTH SHALL TAKE ACCOUNT OF HIM AS HE COMETH
FORTH FROM AND GOETH IN THE COURSE OF THE DAY EVERY DAY, REGULARLY AND
CONTINUALLY, [INTO THE BOAT OF RA] AS A PERFECT _KHU_. AND HE SHALL SET UP
THE _TET_ AND SHALL STABLISH THE BUCKLE, AND SHALL S