ho are without coverings for their faces, for I have
done that which is right and true for the Lord of right and truth. I have
purified myself and my breast with libations, and my hinder parts with the
things which make clean, and my inner parts have been in the Pool of Right
and Truth. There is no single member of mine which lacketh right and
truth. I have been purified in the Pool of the South, and I have rested in
the northern city which is in the Field of the Grasshoppers, wherein the
divine sailors of Ra bathe at the second hour of the night and at the
third hour of the day. And the hearts of the gods are gratified(?) after
they have passed through it, whether it be by night, or whether it be by
day, and they say unto me, 'Let thyself come forward.' And they say unto
me, 'Who, then, art thou?' And they say unto me, 'What is thy name?' 'I am
he who is equipped under the flowers [and I am] the dweller in his
olive-tree,' is my name. And they say unto me straightway, 'Pass thou on';
and I passed on by thy city to the north of the olive-tree. What, then,
didst thou see there? The leg and the thigh. What, then, didst thou say
unto them? Let me see rejoicings in those lands of the Tenkhu.(103) And
what did they give unto thee? A flame of fire and a tablet (or sceptre) of
crystal. What, then, didst thou do therewith? I buried them by the furrow
of Manaat as 'things for the night.' What, then, didst thou find by the
furrow of Manaat? A sceptre of flint, the name of which is 'Giver of
winds.' What, then, didst thou do to the flame of fire and the tablet (or
sceptre) of crystal after thou hadst buried them? I uttered words over
them in the furrow, [and I dug them out therefrom];(104) I extinguished
the fire, and I broke the tablet (or sceptre), and I created a pool of
water. 'Come, then,' [they say,] 'and enter in through the door of this
Hall of double Maati, for thou knowest us.' "
" 'We will not let thee enter in through us,' say the bolts of the door,
'unless thou tellest [us] our names;' 'Tongue [of the Balance] of the
place of right and truth' is your name. 'I will not let thee enter in by
me,' saith the [right] lintel of the door, 'unless thou tellest [me] my
name;' 'Balance of the support of right and truth' is thy name. 'I will
not let thee enter in by me,' saith the [left] lintel of the door, 'unless
thou tellest [me] my name;' ['Balance of] wine' is thy name. 'I will not
let thee pass over me,' saith the threshold
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