e, and thou bringest them forth without
birth-pangs in the form of Ra, as thou dost rise up into the upper air.
Grant thou that I may come unto the heaven which is everlasting, and unto
the mountain where dwell thy favored ones. May I be joined unto those
shining beings, holy and perfect, who are in the underworld; and may I
come forth with them to behold thy beauties when thou shinest at eventide
and goest to thy mother Nu. Thou dost place thyself in the west, and my
two hands are [raised] in adoration [of thee] when thou settest as a
living being. Behold, thou art the maker of eternity, and thou art adored
[when] thou settest in the heavens. I have given my heart unto thee
without wavering, O thou who art mightier than the gods."

Osiris Ani, triumphant, saith: "A hymn of praise to thee, O thou who
risest like unto gold, and who dost flood the world with light on the day
of thy birth. Thy mother giveth thee birth upon [her] hand, and thou dost
give light unto the course of the Disk. O thou great Light, who shinest in
the heavens, thou dost strengthen the generations of men with the
Nile-flood, and thou dost cause gladness in all lands, and in all cities,
and in all the temples. Thou art glorious by reason of thy splendors, and
thou makest strong thy _ka_ (_i.e._, Double) with _hu_ and _tchefau_
foods. O thou who art the mighty one of victories, thou who art the Power
of [all] powers, who dost make strong thy throne against evil fiends; who
art glorious in majesty in the _Sektet_ boat, and who art exceeding mighty
in the _Atet_ boat, make thou glorious Osiris Ani with victory in the
underworld; grant thou that in the netherworld he may be without evil. I
pray thee to put away [his] faults behind thee: grant thou that he may be
one of thy venerable servants who are with the shining ones; may he be
joined unto the souls which are in Ta-tchesertet; and may he journey into
the Sekhet-Aaru by a prosperous and happy decree, he the Osiris, the
scribe, Ani, triumphant."

And the god saith:

"Thou shalt come forth into heaven, thou shalt pass over the sky, thou
shalt be joined into the starry deities. Praises shall be offered unto
thee in thy boat, thou shalt be hymned in the _Atet_ boat, thou shalt
behold Ra within his shrine, thou shalt set together with his Disk day by
day, thou shalt see the _Ant_ fish when it springeth into being in the
waters of turquoise, and thou shalt see the _Abtu_ fish in his hour. It
shall come to