Egyptian Literature/The Book of the Dead/Preservation from Scalding
PRESERVATION FROM SCALDING
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 12).]
The Chapter of not being scalded with water. The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:
“I am the oar made ready for rowing, wherewith Rā transported the boat containing the divine ancestors, and lifted up the moist emanations of Osiris from the Lake of Fire, and he was not burned. I lie down like a divine Khu, [and like] Khnemu who dwelleth among lions. Come, break away the restraints from him that passeth by the side of this path, and let me come forth by it.”