Osiris is he who prayeth that he may be buried.
The eyes of the Great One are bent down, and he doth for thee the work of cleansing;([5]) marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues.([6])
Notes.
The translator of this chapter cannot pretend to do more than give an accurate meaning to each word. The true sense of the chapter must have been lost when the earliest copies known to us were written.
[1.] Wig,
. The head-dress of the gods is one of the mythical forms of representing the light cloud at sunrise or sunset, in which the deity is pileatus.
[2.] Scent,
