CHAPTER CXXXV.
Another chapter recited when the Moon renews itself on the first day of the month.
Osiris is enveloped in storm and rain: he is enveloped: but the fair Horus lendeth succour daily, the Lord of high attributes . . . ([1]) he driveth off the storm from the face of the Osiris N.
Behold him coming: he is Rā on his journey: he is the four gods who are over the upper region.
The Osiris N arriveth at his own time: and by means of his lines is brought to the light of day.
If this chapter be known he becometh a Chu of Might in the Netherworld; he dieth not a second time, in the Netherworld; but he eateth by the side of Osiris.
If it be known upon earth he will become like Thoth, so as to be worshipped by the living: he will not fall a victim to a king’s wrath([2]) or to the fierce heat of Basit, but will be made to advance to a most blissful old age.
Notes.
This chapter is not found in the papyri of the older period.
[1.] The words
Offerings of (or to) the Moment have the appearance of an interpolated rubrical direction. See next note.
[2.] A king’s wrath
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in the cases of gods and men is an impulse which cannot be stopped, but carries everything before it.