hidden habitations, and food falleth out
of the eastern horizon of heaven at the word of the goddess Nut who maketh
plain the paths of Ra, whereupon straightway the Prince goeth round about.
Lift up then thyself, O thou Ra, who dwellest in thy divine shrine, draw
thou into thyself the winds, inhale the north wind, swallow thou the
skin(?) of thy net on the day wherein thou breathest right and truth. Thou
separatest the divine followers, and thou sailest in [thy] boat to Nut;
the divine princes march onward at thy word. Thou takest count of thy
bones, thou gatherest together thy members, thou settest thy face toward
the beautiful Amentet, and thou comest, being renewed each day. Behold,
thou art that Image of gold, and thou dost possess the splendors of the
disks of heaven and art terrible; thou comest, being renewed each day.
Hail, the horizon rejoiceth, and there are shouts of joy in the rigging
[of thy boat]; when the gods who dwell in the heavens see the Osiris Nu,
the overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, they
ascribe unto him as his due praises which are like unto those ascribed
unto Ra. The Osiris Nu, the overseer of the palace, the
chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, is a divine prince and he seeketh(?) the
_ureret_ crown of Ra, and he, the only one, is strong in good fortune (?)
in that supreme body which is of those divine beings who are in the
presence of Ra. The Osiris Nu is strong both upon earth and in the
underworld; and the Osiris Nu is strong like unto Ra every day. The Osiris
Nu shall not tarry, and he shall not lie without motion in this land
forever. Being doubly beautiful [he] shall see with his two eyes, and he
shall hear with his two ears; rightly and truly, rightly and truly. The
Osiris Nu is like unto Ra, and he setteth in order the oars [of his boat]
among those who are in the train of Nu. He doth not tell that which he
hath seen, and he doth not repeat that which he hath heard in the secret
places. Hail, let there be shouts of joy to the Osiris Nu, who is of the
divine body of Ra, as he journeyeth over Nu, and who propitiateth the KA
of the god with that which he loveth. The Osiris Nu, the overseer of the
palace, the chancellor-in-chief, is a hawk, the transformations of which
are mighty (or manifold)."(119)

[THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE] RECITED OVER A BOAT FOUR(120) CUBITS IN ITS LENGTH
AND MADE OF GREEN PORCELAIN [ON WHICH HAVE BEEN PAINTED] THE DIVINE
SOVEREIGN CHIEFS OF THE CI