Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Of Entering the Boat of Ra
OF ENTERING THE BOAT OF RA
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheets 27 and 28).]
The Book of making perfect the Khu and of causing him to go forth into the boat of Ra along with those who are in his following(?). The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:
“I have brought the divine Bennu to the east, and Osiris to the city of Tattu. I have opened the treasure-houses of the god Hāp, I have made clean the roads of the Disk, and I have drawn the god Sekeri along upon his sledge. The mighty and divine Lady hath made me strong at her hour. I have praised and glorified the Disk, and I have united myself unto the divine apes who sing at the dawn, and I am a divine Being among them. I have made myself a counterpart of the goddess Isis, and her power (Khu) hath made me strong. I have tied up the rope, I have driven back Apep, I have made him to walk backward. Rā hath stretched out to me both his hands, and his mariners have not repulsed me; my strength is the strength of the Utchat, and the strength of the Utchat is my strength. If the overseer of the house, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, be separated [from the boat of Rā], then shall he (i.e., Rā) be separated from the Egg and from the Abtu fish.”
[this chapter] shall be recited over the design which hath been drawn above, and it shall be written upon papyrus which hath not been written upon, with [ink made of] grains of green abut mixed with anti water, and the papyrus shall be placed on the breast of the deceased; it shall not enter in to (i.e., touch) his members. if this be done for any deceased person he shall go forth into the boat of ra in the course of the day every day, and the god thoth shall take account of him as he cometh forth from and goeth in the course of the day every day, regularly and continually, [into the boat of ra] as a perfect khu. and he shall set up the tet and shall stablish the buckle, and shall sail about with ra into any place he wisheth.