The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead 132

Of Bringing Men Back to Earth

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Of Bringing Men Back to Earth [From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 18).]

The Chapter of causing a man to come back to see his house upon earth. The Osiris Ani saith:

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“I am the Lion-god coming forth with extended strides. I have shot arrows and I have wounded the prey; I have shot arrows and I have wounded the prey. I am the Eye of Horus, and I pass through the Eye of Horus at this season. I have arrived at the furrows; let the Osiris Ani advance in peace.”

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The Book of the Dead, tr. E. A. Wallis BudgeTranslation · English · E. A. Wallis Budge, 1901

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 Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example).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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