The Egyptian Book of the dead

by Unknown

I am Babai, the eldest son of Osiris, who striketh the eye of every god([2]) in Heliopolis.

I am the Heir, the primary power of motion and of rest([3]).

I have made firm my name, and have preserved it that I may have life through it.

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CHAPTER LXIIIB.

Chapter whereby one is not boiled in water.

I am that ready Rudder wherewith Râ conveyeth the Ancient ones, and I raise the effluxes([4]) of Osiris to the Tank from flames impassable; a wrecked one,([5]) but not to be consumed.

I lie helpless as a dead person,([6]) and I arrive at the lair of the Lion who defieth slaughter, ...([7]) following the road by which I set out.

Notes.

The Chapters 63A and 63B are united into one in the later MSS. without any other division than