e restores the body of Osiris.
8 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He places the corpse upon its
foundation, in its place that no one knows.
9 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He calls his body Osiris.
10 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He sees him who is in the
sarcophagus.
11 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. The rays of Aten(635) are upon
his person.
12 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He has taken the good ways.
13 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He worships thy soul upon the
horizon.
14 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. Thou speakest to him as to the
god who is upon the ground.
15 O, Ra, come to the King! truly. He is one of thy Nine Gods.
CHAPTER IV
_Section I_
1 Thou art what he is, Ra, thou givest birth to the royal Osiris,
thou makest him exist like thyself, god of the two horizons; the
birth of Osiris is the birth of Ra in the Ament, and reciprocally;
the birth of Osiris in the heavens is the birth of the soul of Ra
in the heavens, and reciprocally; the life of Osiris is the life
of Ra, and reciprocally; the development of his body is the
development of Ra's body. Ra conceived, Tum gave birth to Osiris;
it is the young Chepra; Nut brings Osiris into the world, she
nourishes Osiris, like Ra's soul which issued from her.
2 O, Ra who art in the Ament ...(636) who art in the empyrean,
deliver Osiris from thy conductors who separate souls from their
bodies, the agile beings who move quickly in thy places of
torment. May they never seize Osiris, may they never take him, may
they never quicken their steps toward him, may they never put him
in their places of torture, may they never cast their toils round
him, may they never place him upon their altars, may he never
tremble in the land of the condemned, may he never be lost in the
Ament. He walks as the god of the horizon walks, he takes Ra's
steps, he worships the god who is on the earth, he honors the
mysterious bodies ...(637) they say to Osiris: Hu and Sa; they
call him this, because he is like the spirit of Hu and Sa(638) in
his creations; he makes the sacred tree grow he is not ignorant of
it. There are cries of joy in the mysterious region, for Ra sets
under the form of Osiris, and reciprocally. Rejoice, you the dead,
render praises to Ra, and Ra renders praises to you. Ra comes
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