Guide me, and let the gates of Heaven, Earth, and the Tuat be opened to me.
I am the Soul of Osiris and rest in him.
Let me pass through the Gateways, and let them raise acclamation when they see me.
Let me enter as I will, and come forth at my pleasure, and make my way without there being found any defect or any evil attaching to me.
Notes.
The text which has been followed in the translation of this chapter is that of the Royal Tombs of Rameses IV and Rameses VI, called by M. Naville Chapter 127 A. The lost Busca papyrus, of which Lepsius had a tracing, furnishes a different text, (127 B), and the text of the Turin Todtenbuch has been enlarged by means of numerous interpolations. M. Naville has called attention to the close relationship between this chapter and the second part of the “Solar Litany.”
[1.] Book
, properly a Roll; a title given to several of the chapters (125, 127, 129, 130, 140, 141, 142 and 148 in the Turin Todtenbuch), instead of the usual