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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead 66

Coming Forth by Day

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English · E. A. Wallis Budge

Coming Forth by Day [From the Papyrus of Amen-em-heb (Naville, op. cit., Bd. i. Bl. 78).]

The Chapter of coming forth by day. The scribe Mahu saith:

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English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“I have knowledge. I was conceived by the goddess Sekhet, and the goddess Neith gave birth to me; I am Horus, and [I have] come forth from the Eye of Horus. I am Uatchit who came forth from Horus. I am Horus and I fly up and perch myself upon the forehead of Ra in the bows of his boat which is in heaven.”

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 Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example).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