Of Rescue
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Author / Collector:
Epiphanius Wilson
Book:
Egyptian Book Of the Dead
Publisher:
The Colonial Press
Year:
1901
Country:
Generic
License:
Public Domain (copyright expired)
Editor's Notes:
n/a
Of Rescue: deliverance, divine aid, escape from peril.
Subject:
Of Rescue
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 6).]
THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE SOUL OF NU, TRIUMPHANT, BE CAPTIVE IN THE
UNDERWORLD. He saith:
“Hail, thou who art exalted! [Hail,] thou who art adored! O thou mighty
one of Souls, thou divine Soul, thou possessor of terrible power, who dost
put the fear of thyself into the gods, thou who art crowned upon thy
throne of majesty, I pray thee to make a way for the _ba_ (soul), and for
the _khu_, and for the _khaibit_ (shade) of the overseer of the palace,
the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant [and let him be] provided
therewith. I am a perfect _khu_, and I have made [my] way unto the place
wherein dwell Rā and Hathor.”
IF THIS CHAPTER BE KNOWN [BY THE DECEASED] HE SHALL BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM
HIMSELF INTO A _KHU_ PROVIDED [WITH HIS SOUL AND WITH HIS SHADE] IN THE
UNDERWORLD, AND HE SHALL NEVER BE HELD CAPTIVE AT ANY DOOR IN AMENTET, IN
ENTERING IN OR IN COMING OUT.(58)
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