It is the god of the Sektit galley, and of the Mââtit galley, who hath brought them to me at Heliopolis.

I shout with joy, and my Genius shouteth with joy, because I am in Heliopolis, and I live in excellent condition before Râ, on the day when bread is presented in Heliopolis.

Note.

Chapter 53A is taken from the papyri of the older period, 53B is a still older text from the Coffin of Horhotep.


CHAPTER LIV.

Chapter whereby air is given in the Netherworld.

I am the god in Lion-form([1]), the Egg in the Great Cackler, and I watch over that great Egg which Seb hath parted from the earth([2]); my Life is the Life thereof, and the same is true of my advance in life and of my breathing of the air.

I am the god who keepeth opposition in equipoise([3]) as his Egg circleth round. For me dawneth([4]) the moment of the most mighty one, Sut.

O ye gods who are pleasant through the alternate successions of the Earth, who preside over sustenance and who live in the Blue([5]), do ye keep watch over him who abideth in his Nest; the Infant god who cometh forth towards you.