Stop! or thou shalt eat the rat which Rā execrateth, and gnaw the bones of a putrid she-cat.
Note.
This chapter is often found in coffins. There is a chapter much resembling it in the tomb of Horhotep (line 364), at least as regards the opening words. It addresses Rerek and tells him that Shu and another deity are coming, and that the speaker is Horus. No allusion, however, is made to the dead rat and cat. These typify the impurities and abominations to which the damned are liable in the world to come.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Chapter whereby a person is not devoured by the dweller in the shrine.([1])
O Uræus! I am the Flame which shineth, and which openeth out eternity,([2]) the column of Tenpua([3]) [otherwise said—the column on which are blossoming plants.]
Away from me! I am the Lynx goddess.([4])
Notes.
[1.] It is not possible to say what is here actually meant by