Chorus II. "I am Re, in his earliest splendor."
Chorus I. "I am the god who creates himself."
Chorus II. "Who gives his own name to himself, and no one among the gods can restrain him."
Chorus I. "I know the name of the great god who is there."
Chorus II. "For I am the great bird Benut which tests the existent."
["Book of the Dead.">[
After two days of groans and devotions a great car in the form of a boat was drawn to the front of the palace. The ends of this car were adorned with ostrich plumes and rams' heads, while above a costly baldachin towered an eagle, and there also was the ureus serpent, symbol of the pharaoh's dominion. On this car was placed the sacred mummy, in spite of the wild resistance of court women. Some of them held to the coffin, others implored the priests not to take their good lord from them, still others scratched their own faces, tore their hair, and even beat the men who carried the remains of the pharaoh.
The outcry was terrible.
At last the car, when it had received the divine body, moved on amid a multitude of people who occupied the immense space from the palace to the river. There were people smeared with mud, torn, covered with mourning rags, people who cried in heaven-piercing voices. At the side of these, according to mourning ritual, were disposed, along the whole road, choruses.
Chorus I. "To the West, to the mansion of Osiris, to the West art Thou going, Thou who wert the best among men, who didst hate the untrue."
Chorus II. "Going West! There will not be another who will so love the truth, and who will so hate a lie."