WATER AT THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD; HE
SHALL COME FORTH BY DAY EVEN AS DOTH HORUS; HE SHALL LIVE AND SHALL BECOME
LIKE UNTO GOD; AND HE SHALL BE HYMNED BY THE LIVING ONES, EVEN AS IS RA
EACH AND EVERY DAY CONTINUALLY AND REGULARLY FOREVER.

Sailing In The Great Boat

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 28).]

THE CHAPTER OF SAILING IN THE GREAT BOAT OF RA TO PASS OVER THE CIRCLE OF
BRIGHT FLAME. The Osiris Nu, the overseer of the palace, the
chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith:

"[Hail], ye bright and shining flames that keep your place behind Ra, and
which slay behind him, the boat of Ra is in fear of the whirlwind and the
storm; shine ye forth, then, and make [ye yourselves] visible. I have come
[daily] along with the god Sek-hra from the bight of his holy lake, and I
have seen the Maat [goddesses] pass along, and the lion-gods who belong
unto them. Hail, thou that dwellest in the coffer who hast multitudes of
plants(?), I have seen [what is] there. We rejoice, and their princes
rejoice greatly, and their lesser gods(?) are glad. I have made a way in
front of the boat of Ra, I have lifted myself up into his divine Disk, I
shine brightly through his splendors; he hath furnished himself with the
things which are his, taking possession thereof as the lord of right and
truth. And behold, O ye company of the gods, and thou ancestor of the
goddess Isis,(124) grant ye that he may bear testimony to his father, the
lord of those who are therein. I have weighed the ... in him [as] chief,
and I have brought to him the goddess Tefnut and he liveth. Behold, come,
come, and declare before him the testimony of right and truth of the lord
Tem. I cry out at eventide and at his hour, saying, Grant ye unto me that
I may come. I have brought unto him the jaws of the passages of the tomb;
I have brought unto him the bones which are in Annu (Heliopolis); I have
gathered together for him his manifold parts; I have driven back for him
the serpent fiend Apep; I have spit upon his gashes for him; I have made
my road and I have passed in among you. I am he who dwelleth among the
gods, come, let [me] pass onward in the boat, the boat of the lord Sa.
Behold, O Heru-ur, there is a flame, but the fire hath been extinguished.
I have made [my] road, O ye divine fathers and your divine apes! I have
entered upon the horizon, and I have passed on to the side of the divine
princes, and I have borne testimony unto him that dwell