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Repulsing Serpents
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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
Repulsing Serpents: protection, danger, divine defence against chaos.
Subject:
Repulsing Serpents
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 6).]
THE CHAPTER OF REPULSING SERPENTS (OR WORMS). Nu, the overseer of the
palace, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith:
“Hail, thou serpent Rerek, advance not hither. Behold Seb and Shu. Stand
still now, and thou shalt eat the rat which is an abominable thing unto
Rā, and thou shalt crunch the bones of the filthy cat.”
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