of this door, 'unless thou
tellest [me] my name;' 'Ox of the god Seb' is thy name. 'I will not open
unto thee,' saith the fastening of this door, 'unless thou tellest [me] my
name;' 'Flesh of his mother' is thy name. 'I will not open unto thee,'
saith the socket of the fastening of the door, 'unless thou tellest me my
name;' 'Living eye of the god Sebek, the lord of Bakhau,' is thy name. 'I
will not open unto thee [and I will not let thee enter in by me,' saith
the guardian of the leaf of] this door, 'unless thou tellest [me] my
name;' 'Elbow of the god Shu when he placeth himself to protect Osiris' is
thy name. 'We will not let thee enter in by us,' say the posts of this
door, 'unless thou tellest us our names;' 'Children of the uraei-goddesses'
is your name.(105) 'Thou knowest us,' [they say,] 'pass on, therefore, by
us.'
" 'I will not let thee tread upon me,' saith the floor of the Hall of
double Maati, 'because I am silent and I am holy, and because I do not
know the name[s] of thy two feet wherewith thou wouldst walk upon me;
therefore tell them to me.' 'Traveller(?) of the god Khas' is the name of
my right foot, and 'Staff of the goddess Hathor' is the name of my left
foot. 'Thou knowest me,' [it saith,] 'pass on therefore over me.' "
" 'I will not make mention of thee,' saith the guardian of the door of
this Hall of double Maati, 'unless thou tellest [me] my name;' 'Discerner
of hearts and searcher of the reins' is thy name. 'Now will I make mention
of thee [to the god]. But who is the god that dwelleth in his hour? Speak
thou it' (_i.e._, his name). Maau-Taui (_i.e._, he who keepeth the record
of the two lands) [is his name]. 'Who then is Maau-Taui?' He is Thoth.
'Come,' saith Thoth. 'But why hast thou come?' I have come, and I press
forward that I may be mentioned. What now is thy condition? I, even I, am
purified from evil things, and I am protected from the baleful deeds of
those who live in their days; and I am not among them. 'Now will I make
mention of thee [to the god].'(106) '[Tell me now,] who is he(107) whose
heaven is of fire, whose walls [are surmounted by] living uraei, and the
floor of whose house is a stream of water? Who is he? I say.' It is
Osiris. 'Come forward, then: verily thou shalt be mentioned [to him]. Thy
cakes [shall come] from the Eye of Ra, and thine ale [shall come] from the
Eye of Ra, and the sepulchral meals [which shall be brought to thee] upon
earth [shall come] from the Eye of
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