api,] that I may have power
over the water, even as Set had power over his enemies on the day when
there were storms and rain upon the earth. Let me have power over the
divine beings who have mighty arms in their shoulders, even as the god who
is apparelled in splendor and whose name is unknown had power over them;
and may I have power over the beings whose arms are mighty."

Preservation Of The Soul

[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 15).]

THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE SOUL OF A MAN BE TAKEN FROM HIM IN THE
UNDERWORLD. Osiris, the Scribe Ani, saith:

"I, even I, am he who came forth from the water-flood which I make to
overflow, and which becometh mighty as the river [Nile]."

Of Drinking Water

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (British Museum No. 9,900, sheet 4).]

THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. The scribe Nebseni ...
saith:

"May be opened [to me] the mighty flood by Osiris, and may the abyss of
water be opened [to me] by Tehuti-Hapi, the lord of the horizon, in my
name of 'Opener.' May there be granted [to me] mastery over the
water-courses as over the members of Set. I go forth into heaven. I am the
Lion-god Ra. I am the Bull. [I] have eaten the Thigh, and I have divided
the carcass. I have gone round about among the islands (or lakes) of
Sekhet-Aaru. Indefinite time, without beginning and without end, hath been
given to me; I inherit eternity, and everlastingness hath been bestowed
upon me."

The last three chapters, with a single vignette, are grouped in one in the
Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 72); but the
order of them as there given is 61, 60, 62. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius,
op. cit., Bl. 23) the vignette of each is the same, _i.e._, the deceased
holding a sail in his left hand.

Of Drinking Water

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 7).]

THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER AND OF NOT BEING BURNT BY FIRE [IN THE
UNDERWORLD]. The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu,
triumphant, saith:

"Hail, Bull of Amentet! I am brought unto thee, I am the oar of Ra
wherewith he ferried over the divine aged ones; let me neither be burnt up
nor destroyed by fire. I am Bet, the first-born son of Osiris, who doth
meet every god within his Eye in Annu. I am the divine Heir, the exalted
one(?), the Mighty One, the Resting One. I have made my name to germinate,
I have delivered [it], and