Of Bringing A Boat Along In Heaven

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

THE CHAPTER OF BRINGING ALONG A BOAT IN HEAVEN. The chancellor-in-chief,
triumphant, saith:

“Hail to thee, O thou Thigh which dwellest in the northern heaven in the
Great Lake, which art seen and which diest not. I have stood up over thee
when thou didst rise like a god. I have seen thee, and I have not lain
down in death; I have stood over thee, and I have risen like a god. I have
cackled like a goose, and I have alighted like the hawk by the divine
clouds and by the great dew. I have journeyed from the earth to heaven.
The god Shu hath [made] me to stand up, the god of Light hath made me to
be vigorous by the two sides of the ladder, and the stars which never rest
set [me] on [my] way and bring [me] away from slaughter. I bring along
with me the things which drive back calamities as I advance over the
passage of the god Pen; thou comest, how great art thou, O god Pen! I have
come from the Pool of Flame which is in the Sekhet-Sasa (_i.e._, the Field
of Fire). Thou livest in the Pool of Flame in Sekhet-Sasa, and I live upon
the staff of the holy [god]. Hail, thou god Kaa, who dost bring those
things which are in the boats by the ... I stand up in the boat and I
guide myself [over] the water; I have stood up in the boat and the god
hath guided me. I have stood up. I have spoken. [I am master of the]
crops. I sail round about as I go forward, and the gates which are in
Sekhem (Letopolis) are opened unto me, and fields are awarded unto me in
the city of Unnu (Hermopolis), and laborers(?) are given unto me together
with those of my own flesh and bone.”