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The Serpent Sata

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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
The Serpent Sata: enchantment, identity, transformation, and supernatural kingship
Subject:

The Serpent Sata

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 11).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO THE SERPENT SATA. The
chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

“I am the serpent Sata whose years are many.(54) 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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