CHAPTER XCIV.

_Chapter whereby one prayeth for a Palette and an Inkstand._

Oh mighty one, who seest thy father, and who hast charge of the Book of

Thoth.

Here am I, I come and am glorified and filled with Soul and Power and

provided with the writings of Thoth, which I bring in order to purify

the tunnel which is in Sutu.(1.) I bring the Palette and I bring the

Inkstand as the instruments of Thoth, the secrets of which are divine.

Here am I, as the Scribe; I bring the remains of Osiris;(2.) and the

writing which I have made upon them is decreed by the great god to be

good, daily, among the good. Thou hast decreed, Horus of the Two

Horizons, that I shall be the author of Maāt and tend(3.) it daily to

Rā.

NOTES.

1. _In Sutu_; that is, in Darkness. _See_ chapter 96.

2. The _remains_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂. This word, though commonly applied

to corruption and impurity of dead matter, is taken in an inoffensive

sense when applied to the gods. Compare, _e.g._, _Pepi I_, line 477 and

following.

3. _Tend_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _mesi_ (not _sebi_) stretch out, _pandere_,

_protendere_.

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