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The Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Egyptian Book of the Dead 117

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead 117

Of Receiving Paths

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English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Of Receiving Paths [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 9).]

The Chapter of receiving paths [whereon to walk] in Re-stau. The chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

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“The paths which are above me [lead] to Re-stau. I am he who is girt about with his girdle and who cometh forth from the [goddess of] the Ureret crown. I have come, and I have stablished things in Abtu (Abydos), and I have opened out paths in Re-stau. The god Osiris hath eased my pains. I am he who maketh the waters to come into being, and who setteth his throne [thereon], and who maketh his path through the funeral valley and through the Great Lake. I have made my path, and indeed I am [Osiris].

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"[Osiris was victorious over his enemies, and the Osiris Nebqet is victorious over his enemies. He hath become as one of yourselves, [O ye gods], his protector is the Lord of eternity, he walketh even as ye walk, he standeth even as ye stand, he sitteth even as ye sit, and he talketh even as ye talk in the presence of the Great God, the Lord of Amentet.]”

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E. A. Wallis Budge's translation (1901). Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example). Square brackets are his additions.

The Book of the Dead according to the Theban Recension, translated by E. A. Wallis Budge, in Egyptian Literature, ed. Epiphanius Wilson (New York: Colonial Press, 1901). Public domain. Transcribed and proofread by English Wikisource volunteers; chapter numbers from Budge's The Book of the Dead: An English Translation (1901). · Source ↗

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