The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

_Chapter whereby the Deceased acquireth might._ Hail to thee who art in the midst of thine Ark, Oh rising Sun who risest, and declining(1.) one who declinest: at whose will millions spring forth, as he turneth his face to the unborn generations of men: Chepera in the middle of his Bark, who overthroweth Apepi. Here are the children of Seb who overthrow the adversaries of Osiris and destroy them from the Bark of Rā. Horus cutteth off their heads in heaven when in the forms of winged fowl, their hinder parts on earth when in the forms of quadrupeds or [in the water] as fishes. All fiends, male or female, the Osiris _N_ destroyeth them, whether descending from heaven or coming forth upon the earth, or issuing out of the water or travelling along with the Stars. Thoth slaughtereth them, the Son of the Rock, proceeding from the place of the Two Rocks.(2.) The Osiris _N_ is dumb and deaf(3.) for the Strong one is Rā, the puissant of stroke, the Almighty one, who washeth in their blood and walloweth in their gore. The Osiris _N_ destroyeth them from the Bark of his father Rā. The Osiris _N_ is Horus: his mother Isis bringeth him forth, and Nephthys nurseth him, as they did to Horus, who repelleth the dark ones of Sutu: who, when they see the Crown fixed upon his brow, fall upon their faces. Osiris Unneferu is triumphant over his adversaries in heaven and on earth, and in the cycle of each god and goddess. _Said over a Hawk in a Boat, with the White Crown upon its head, and the figure of Tmu, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Sutu,(4.) Nephthys, painted yellowish green on a fresh papyrus placed in this Boat, together with the figure of the Deceased, anointed with the Heknu oil. Let there be offered to them incense burning and roast fowl. It is the adoration of Rā, and his voyage, for it is granted to him to make his appearance each day with Rā, whithersoever he journeyeth; and it is the Slaughter of the adversaries of Rā; positively and undeviatingly for times infinite._ NOTES.