The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead 87

The Serpent Sata

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

The Serpent Sata [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10477, sheet n).]

The Chapter of making the transformation into the serpent Sata. The chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

English · E. A. Wallis Budge

“I am the serpent Sata whose years are many. I die and I am born again each day. I am the serpent Sata which dwelleth in the uttermost parts of the earth. I die, and I am born again, and I renew myself, and I grow young each day.”

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 Budge's readings of Egyptian are outdated in many places, and names follow his spellings (Tem for Atum, for example).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