Of Living Nigh Unto Ra

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheets 17 and 18).]

THE CHAPTER OF HAVING EXISTENCE NIGH UNTO RĀ.(116) The overseer of the
palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

“I am that god Rā who shineth in the night. Every being who followeth in
his train shall have life in the following of the god Thoth, and he shall
give unto him the risings of Horus in the darkness. The heart of Osiris
Nu, the overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, is
glad because he is one of those beings, and his enemies have been
destroyed by the divine princes. I am a follower of Rā, and [I have]
received his iron weapon. I have come unto thee, O my father Rā, and I
have advanced to the god Shu. I have cried unto the mighty goddess, I have
equipped the god Hu, and I alone have removed the Nebt god from the path
of Rā. I am a Khu, and I have come to the divine prince at the bounds of
the horizon. I have met and I have received the mighty goddess. I have
raised up thy soul in the following of thy strength, and my soul [liveth]
through thy victory and thy mighty power; it is I who give commands in
speech to Rā, in heaven. Homage to thee, O great god in the east of
heaven, let me embark in thy boat, O Rā, let me open myself out in the
form of a divine hawk, let me give my commands in words, let me do battle
in my _Sekhem_(?), let me be master under my vine. Let me embark in thy
boat, O Rā, in peace, and let me sail in peace to the beautiful Amentet.
Let the god Tem speak unto me, [saying], ‘Wouldst [thou] enter therein?’
The lady, the goddess Mehen, is a million of years, yea, two million years
in extent, and dwelleth in the House of Urt and Nif-urt [and in] the Lake
of a million years; the whole company of the gods move about among those
who are at the side of him who is the lord of divisions of places(?). And
I say, ‘On every road and among these millions of years is Rā the lord,
and his path is in the fire, and they go round about behind him, and they
go round about behind him.’ ”