Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Of Bringing Men Back to Earth

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OF BRINGING MEN BACK TO EARTH

[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 18).]

The Chapter of causing a man to come back to see his house upon earth.^[1] The Osiris Ani saith:

“I am the Lion-god coming forth with extended strides. I have shot arrows and I have wounded the prey; I have shot arrows and I have wounded the prey. I am the Eye of Horus, and I pass through the Eye of Horus at this season. I have arrived at the furrows; let the Osiris Ani advance in peace.”^[2]

1. In the Saite Recension (see Lepsius, op. cit., BI. 54) the house is said to be “in the underworld.”
2. Another papyrus adds the words, “I have advanced, and behold, I have not been found light, and the Balance is empty of my affair.”