weetmeats(?), even as [they are given] to the living _khu_s,
and grant that I may enter in and come forth from Re-stau."

"[The four apes make answer, saying], 'Come, then, for we have done away
with thy wickedness, and we have put away thy sin, along with the [sin
deserving of] stripes which thou [didst commit] upon earth, and we have
destroyed [all] the evil which belonged to thee upon the earth. Enter,
therefore, into Re-stau, and pass thou through the hidden pylons of
Amentet, and there shall be given unto thee cakes, and ale, and
sweetmeats(?), and thou shalt come forth and thou shalt enter in at thy
desire, even as do those _khu_s who are favored [of the god], and thou
shalt be proclaimed (or called) each day in the horizon.' "

Of The Praise Of The Gods

[From the Tomb of Rameses IV (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 141;
Lefebure, "Tombeau de Ramses IV," Plate 13).]

THE BOOK OF THE PRAISE OF THE GODS OF THE QERTI(111) WHICH A MAN SHALL
RECITE WHEN HE COMETH FORTH BEFORE THEM TO ENTER IN TO SEE THE GOD IN THE
GREAT TEMPLE OF THE UNDERWORLD. And he shall say:

"Homage to you, O ye gods of the _Qerti_, ye divine dwellers in Amentet!
Homage to you, O ye guardians of the doors of the underworld, who keep
ward over the god, who bear and proclaim [the names of those who come]
into the presence of the god Osiris, and who hold yourselves ready, and
who praise [him], and who destroy the Enemies of Ra. Oh, send ye forth
your light and scatter ye the darkness [which is about] you, and behold ye
the holy and divine Mighty One, O ye who live even as he liveth, and call
ye upon him that dwelleth within his divine Disk. Lead ye the King of the
North and of the South, (Usr-Maat-Ra-setep-en-Amen), the son of the Sun,
(Ra-meses-meri-Amen-Ra-heq-Maat), through your doors, may his divine soul
enter into your hidden places, [for] he is one among you, and he hath shot
forth calamities upon the serpent fiend Apep, and he hath beaten down the
obstacles [which Apep set up] in Amentet. Thy word hath prevailed mightily
over thine enemies, O great God, who livest in thy divine Disk; thy word
hath prevailed mightily over thine enemies, O Osiris, Governor of Amentet;
thy word hath prevailed mightily over thine enemies in heaven and in
earth, O thou King of the North and of the South,
(Usr-Maat-Ra-setep-en-Amen), the son of the Sun,
(Ra-meses-meri-Amen-Ra-heq-Maat), and over the sovereign princes of every
god and of every goddess,