Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Preservation of the Soul

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PRESERVATION OF THE SOUL

[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 15).]

The Chapter of not letting the soul of a man be taken from him in the underworld. Osiris, the Scribe Ani, saith:

“I, even I, am he who came forth from the water-flood which I make to overflow, and which becometh mighty as the river [Nile].”