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

pyramids. It is one of the celestial lakes not very distant from the Elysian fields. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE LVI. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER 153B. =Louvre, III, 93.=] [Illustration: CHAPTER 154. LEPSIUS, “Todt.”] [Illustration: CHAPTERS 151, 155, 156. =Louvre, III, 89.=]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER CLIIIB. _The Chapter of escaping from the catchers of fish._ O ye snarers (?), O ye fowlers, O ye fishers, sons of their fathers, know ye(1.) what I do know, the name of this very great net: the embracer is its name. Know ye what I do know, the name of its cordage: the bonds of Isis. Know ye what I do know, the name of its stake: the thigh of Tmu. Know ye what I do know, the name of the fork: the finger of Nemu. Know ye what I do know, the name of its point: the nail of Ptah. Know ye what I do know, the name of its blade: the knife of Isis. Know ye what I do know, the name of its weight: the iron which is in the sky. Know ye what I do know, the name of its flowers(2.): the feathers of the hawk. Know ye what I do know, the name of the fisherman: the cynocephalus. Know ye what I do know, the name of the ground(3.), where are its limits: the house of the moon. Know ye what I do know, the name of him who fishes there: the great prince who sits on the east of the sky...(4.). I am Rā,(5.) who proceedeth from Nu, and my soul is divine. I am he who produceth food, but I execrate what is wrong. I am Osiris, the possessor of Maāt, and I subsist by means of it every day. I am the eternal one, like the bull.(6.) I am feared by the cycle of the gods in my name of the eternal one. I am self-originating, together with Nu, in my name of Chepera, from whom I am born daily. I am the lord of Daylight, and I shine like Rā; he gives me life in these his risings in the East. I come to heaven, I take hold of my place in the East. The children of the great god nourish him to whom they have given birth, with sacred offerings. I eat like Shu. I ease myself like Shu. The king of Egypt (Osiris) is present. Khonsu and Thoth(7.) their laws are within me. They impart warmth(8.) to the heavenly host. NOTES. This Chapter is found only in two papyri: Paris, III, 93, and the Papyrus of _Nu._ Both of them are, in some parts, very incorrect. The Paris document here and there omits a line; I had to use them both for the translation. The first part of the Chapter is only a nomenclature of the various parts of the net, very similar to 153A. The vignette represents a drag-net drawn by three dog-headed apes.