Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Of Being Nigh unto Thoth (1)
OF BEING NIGH UNTO THOTH
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 7).]
The Chapter of being nigh unto Thoth. The chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:
“I am he who sendeth forth terror into the powers of rain and thunder, and I ward off from the great divine lady the attacks of violence. [I have smitten like the god Shāt (i.e., the god of slaughter), and I have poured out libations of cool water like the god Ashu, and I have worked for the great divine lady [to ward off] the attacks of violence], I have made to flourish [my] knife along with the knife which is in the hand of Thoth in the powers of rain and thunder.”