CHAPTER CLXXVII.

_Chapter of raising the Chu, of vivifying his soul in the Netherworld._

O Nut, Nut, who created the father out of his earth(1.) and Horus after

him, who bound his wings as to a hawk and his feathers like Kemhesu,(2.)

who brought him his soul, and who perfected his words, who showed him

his abode in the presence of the stars, the occupiers of the sky, for he

is the great star of Nut.

Thou seest _N._ uttering words to the Glorified, for he is the great

form who will not rule (?) over them if thou art not among them. Thou

seest the head of _N._ as a _ba_(3.) (ram); his horns are like those of

a sacrificed victim, those of a black ram, born of the ewe who bare him,

and suckled by four sheep.

There came to thee Horus with blue eyes, do thou guard Horus with red

eyes in his sickness and in his wrath; let his soul not be opposed, let

his messengers come to him, and his quick runners(4.) hasten to him; let

them come on the west side, and one by one (?) march towards thee.

The god has said this: thy words are those of the father of the

gods,(5.) thy name will be triumphant before the gods; they exalt thee

and the cycle of the gods give thee their hands.

Said by the god to the father of the gods: take possession of the door

of the _ka_ on the horizon, let them throw open their gates; thou art

welcome to them, do thou prevail over them, let them advance towards the

god(6.) ... when they come out they raise their faces, they see him

before the great god Amsu[6] ... thy head, I have raised for thee thy

head, take possession of it ... his head has perished behind thee, thy

head will not perish and what thou hast done before men and gods will

not be destroyed.

NOTES.

This Chapter is found in the pyramid of Unas (ll. 361-376), where the

text is not much better than in the Papyrus London 9900.

1. I believe this obscure expression means Osiris.

2. A form of Horus represented as a crouching hawk, with two feathers on

his head (Renouf, _Life Work_, Vol. III, p. 236).

3. Though ⁂ is written by a bird with a human head, it applies to

the soul represented by a ram. See vignettes to Chapter 85.

4. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ evidently the word ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ of

the inscription of the “Destruction of mankind,” where it refers to

⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ the messengers.

5. ⁂⁂⁂ means properly a hunter, a man of the field, which

would have no sense here. Unas reads ⁂⁂⁂⁂ “the divine

fathers.” Adopting the reading of Unas in the singular, I read the

father of the gods, probably Seb, who is mentioned a little further in

the text of the pyramid.

6. Lacunæ.

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