orious than [all] the gods and who
illuminest the Tuat with thine Eye. Homage to thee who sailest in thy
glory and who goest round about it in thy Disk."

The following variant of the above hymn is translated from the text in the
Papyrus of Nekhtu-Amen (Naville, "Todtenbuch," Bd. II. p. 23).

ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE MYSTERY OF THE TUAT (UNDERWORLD) AND OF TRAVERSING
THE UNSEEN PLACES OF THE UNDERWORLD, of seeing the Disk when he setteth in
Amentet, [when] he is adored by the gods and by the _Khu_s of the Tuat
(underworld), and [when] the divine _Khu_ which dwelleth within Ra is made
perfect. He setteth his might before Ra, he setteth his power before Tem,
[he setteth his strength] before Khenti-Amentet, and he setteth his terror
before the company of the gods. The Osiris of the gods goeth as leader
through the Tuat (underworld), he crasheth through mountains, he bursteth
through rocks, he maketh glad (?) the heart of every _Khu_. This
composition shall be recited by the deceased when he cometh forth and when
he goeth in with the gods, among whom he findeth no opposition; then shall
he come forth by day in all the manifold and exceedingly numerous forms
which he may be pleased to take. [The Osiris ... saith:]

"A hymn of praise to Ra at eventide [when] he setteth as a living being in
Baakha.(12) The great god who dwelleth in his Disk riseth in his two
eyes(13) and all the _Khu_s of the underworld receive him in his horizon
of Amentet; they shout praises unto Heru-khuti (Harmachis) in his form of
Tem, and they sing hymns of joy to Ra when they have received him at the
head of his beautiful path of Amentet."

He (_i.e._, the deceased) saith: "Praise be unto thee, O Ra, praise be
unto thee, O Tem, in thy splendid progress. Thou hast risen and thou hast
put on strength, and thou settest like a living being amid thy glories in
the horizon of Amentet, in thy domain which is in Manu. Thy uraeus-goddess
is behind thee; thy uraeus-goddess is behind thee. Hail to thee, in peace;
hail to thee, in peace. Thou joinest thyself unto the Eye of Horus, and
thou hidest thyself within its secret place; it destroyeth for thee all
the convulsions of thy face, it maketh thee strong with life, and thou
livest. It bindeth its protecting amulets behind thy members. Thou sailest
forth over heaven, and thou makest the earth to be stablished; thou
joinest thyself unto the upper heaven, O Luminary. The two regions of the
East and West make adoratio