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CHAPTER CII.

_Chapter whereby one entereth into the Bark of Rā._

O Great One in thy Bark, let me be lifted into thy Bark. Let me make

head for thy staircase. Let me have charge of those who convey thee, who

are attached to thee, who are of the Stars which never set.

That which I abominate, I eat not: and that which I abominate is Dirt,

let me not eat of it, but of peace offerings and of _Ka_-offerings, by

which I shall not be upset.

Let me not approach it with my hands, let me not tread upon it with my

sandals, because my bread is of the white corn and my beer of the red

corn of the Nile.

It is the Sektit boat and the Āātit which have brought me to the food

and raiment which are upon the altar of the Spirits of Annu.

Salutation to thee, Ur-ar-set, in that voyage of heaven and the disaster

in Tennu, when those dogs were gathered together, not without giving

voice.

I have come myself and delivered the god from that pain and suffering,

that was in trunk, in shoulder and in leg.

I have come and healed(1.) the trunk, and fastened the shoulder and made

firm the leg.

And I embark for the voyage of Rā.

NOTE.

1. _Healed._ Such is the meaning of ⁂⁂⁂, as in chapter 147,

17, and Unas 214, no less than in a passage which does not occur in the

most ancient texts of chapter 17, but which is found in the papyri and

is derived from the early traditions. Thoth healed the face of Horus.

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