CHAPTER LXXXIX.

_Chapter whereby the Soul is united to the dead Body._

Oh thou who Bringest; Oh thou Runner, who dwellest in thy Keep,(1.) thou

great god; grant that my Soul may come to me from whatsoever place

wherein it abideth.

But if there be a delay in the bringing of my soul to me, thou shalt

find the Eye of Horus standing firm against thee, like those undrowsy

Watchers who lie in Annu, the land wherein are thousands of reunions.

Let my Soul be caught, and the Chu which is with it, wheresoever it

abideth.

Track out(2.) among the things in heaven and upon earth that soul of

mine, wherever it abideth.

But if there be a delay in thy causing me to see my Soul and my Shade,

thou shalt find the Eye of Horus standing firm against thee.

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Oh ye gods who draw along the Bark of the Eternal one: ye who lift up

above the Tuat, and who raise up the Sky: ye who enable the Souls to

enter into the mummied forms; ye whose hands grasp the cordage, hold

firm with your ropes and stop the adversaries that the Bark may rejoice

and the god proceed in peace.

And now grant that my Soul may come forth in your train from the Eastern

horizon of Heaven for ever and ever.

NOTES.

The oldest papyri present a much shorter form than the later ones. That

portion which is here separated by a line from what goes before it first

appears on the sarcophagus of Seti I and in the papyrus of Ani. The

vignette is a very favourite decoration of mummies.

1. _Keep_ ⁂⁂ of which the regular variant in this chapter is not

_saḥ_ but ⁂⁂ _seḫen_.

2. _Track out_, ⁂⁂⁂ is _investigare_, ἐξιχινεύειν, to follow

the traces like a dog. _See_ _ Denk._ II, 3, where the word occurs in

the title of “master of the trackers,” determined by a man holding a

hound in leash. It is from this notion that the sense of _sight_ or

_looking_ appears in ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⲛⲁⲩ.

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