Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Of Rescue
OF RESCUE
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No, 10,477, sheet 6).]
The Chapter of not letting the soul of Nu, triumphant, be captive in the underworld. He saith:
“Hail, thou who art exalted! [Hail,] thou who art adored! O thou mighty one of Souls, thou divine Soul, thou possessor of terrible power, who dost put the fear of thyself into the gods, thou who art crowned upon thy throne of majesty, I pray thee to make a way for the ba (soul), and for the khu, and for the khaibit (shade) of the overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant [and let him be] provided therewith. I am a perfect khu, and I have made [my] way unto the place wherein dwell Rā and Hathor.”
if this chapter be known [by the deceased] he shall be able to transform himself into a khu provided [with his soul and with his shade] in the underworld, and he shall never be held captive at any door in amentet, in entering in or in coming out.[1]
- ↑ This rubric is taken from the Papyrus of Ani, sheet 17.