Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Bearb.]: The book of the dead: the Papyrus Ani in the British Museum ; the Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introd. etc. ([Text]) (London, 1895)

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INTRODUCTION.

The deification of
the spiritual body.

the living ones he becomes “ God, the son of God,”1 2 and all the gods of

heaven become his brethren.3 His bones are the gods and goddesses of heaven ;4 5
his right side belongs to Horus, and his left side to Set ;6 the goddess Nut makes
him to rise up as a god without an enemy in his name “God”;6 and God calls
him by his name.7 His face is the face of Ap-uat, his eyes are the great ones
among the souls of Annu, his nose is Thoth, his mouth is the great lake, his
tongue belongs to the boat of right ancl truth, his teeth are the spirits of Annu, his
chin is Khert-khent-Sekhem, his backbone is Sema, his shoulders are Set, his
breast is Beba,8 etc. ; every one of his members is identified with a god. Moreover,
his body as a whole is identified with the God of Heaven. For example it is said
concerning Unas :—

ri —


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0

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(] ? —

t'et - k

t'et

ent

Unas


pen

df - k

Thy body

is the body

of

Unas


this.

Thy flesh

af

is the flesh

/vww\

en

of

kesu - k
Thy bones

kesu Unas pen

are the bones of Unas this.

~rr

seb - k [seb

Thy passage is the passage

(^MP

\ AAAAAA 1

□

AAAAAA

Unas

pen

Unas

this.

f jMni

□

v. ■ j 1

Unas

AAAAAA

pen

of Unas

this.

rrr

\ MWA 1 1 J\


seb Unas pen seb - k

The passage of Unas this is thy passage.9

1 Recueil de Travaux, t. v., p. 183 (1. 166).

’lla-!1' viii., p. 89 (1. 574).

See pyramid of Teta, (Recueil, t. v.), 11. 45, 137, 197, 302.

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Ibid-’ f' HL’ P' 202 0- 2°9)-

5 Ibid., t. v., p. 23 (1. 198).

c 7^”tv”p-s8,
(i. 279).

7 Ibid., p. 26 (1. 222) 8 Ibid., t. viii., p. 88 (1. 565 ff.).

9 Ibid., t. iii., p. 214 (1. 268).