I spy out for my father Râ at sunset, compressing my mouth,([4]) and feeding upon life.
I live in Tattu, and I repeat my life after death like the Sun daily.
Notes.
There are two recensions of this chapter, and both are found in the papyrus Lb. They are called by M. Naville, 38A and 38B. The latter is that adopted as canonical by all the manuscripts of a later date, and is the one here translated. The other recension is longer, and contains passages which are also found in other chapters, to which it accordingly furnishes important variants. It may possibly be older than those chapters.
[1.] In Chemmis. The name of the place where Isis gave birth to Horus is in the Pyramid texts written
(Pepi I, 428), and