The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead 37

Driving Back the Merti

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Driving Back the Merti [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 8).]

The Chapter of driving back the two Merti goddesses. Nu, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith:

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“Homage to you, ye two Rekht goddesses, ye two Sisters, ye two Mert goddesses, I bring a message to you concerning my magical words. I shine from the Sektet boat, I am Horus the son of Osiris, and I have come to see my father Osiris.”

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 Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example).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