Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Hrsg.]: The book of the dead: facsimiles of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerāsher and Netchemet ; with supplementary text from the papyrus of Nu with transcripts, etc. (London, 1899)

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THE PAPYRUS OF THE ROYAL MOTHER NETCHEMET.

THE DECEASED IN THE IIEART OF Ra ; OF MAKING
IIIM TO GAIN THE MASTERY BEFORE THE GOD
TeMU ; OF MAKING IIIM GREAT BEFORE OsiRIS ;
(2) OF GIVING HIM STRENGTII BEFORE HIM THAT

is Governor of those who are in Amenti ;

AND OF MAKING THE AWE OF FIIS MAJESTY [tO
COME] BEFORE THE (3) GODS.

[This Book] shall be recited on the hrst day
[of each] month, 011 the festivals of the sixth day,
on the festivals of Uaka, 011 the festivals of
Thoth, (4) on the festivals of the birthdays
of Osiris, on the festivals of Seker, and on
the festival nights of (5) Haker. [It shall
give] the deceased power over the hiclden
things of the Tuat (unclerworld) ; and to pass
through the hidclen places of Akertet ; (6) and
to crush the evil things ; and to force a
passage through the mysterious valleys of
the underworld, the entrances of which are
unknown; (7) and to make the heart of the

deceased to germinate ; and to make broad his
steps; and to make him (8) to advance; and
to prevent destruction coming (?) upon him ;
and to make him to obtain an entrance unto the
God. When thou recitest [this Book] thou
shalt not (9) suffer any person whatsoever to see
thee save him who is thy true friend, and the
Kher-heb priest; (10) and thou shalt not suffer
any one who is a stranger unto thee, or any
servant that cometh in from outside, to see thee.
The soul of the deceased, whosoever he may
(11) be, for whom this Book shall be recited,
shall [dwell] with the living ones ; and he shall
[come forth] by day (12); and he shall gain ,
the mastery among the Ilorus god, and the
two Horus gods, and the gods ; and he shall
be made (13) a being who shall suffer no
opposition from them. Ancl the gods shall go
round about him [when] they rccognize him,
and he shall (14) become like unto one of
them. [This Book] shall make thee to know
what things shall befall the deceased at the
beginning (?). This Book is indeed a mystery,

PLATE II.

a (15) great mystery; let lt never, never
be learned by any stranger in any place what-
soever. Let no man or woman utter the words
thereof; let no eye whatsoever beholcl it; let no
ear hear it, (16) except those of [thy] son, and
of him that taught it unto thee. Thou shalt

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not put [it] mto the mouths of the multitude,
but only into thine [own mouth], and into that
of the friend of thine heart. And thou shalt
recite it within (17) the chamber of swathings
(i.e., the mummy - chamber), which shall be
sprinkled throughout with water in which the
qenau drug hath been mixed. [This Book]

is, indeed, a mystery ; suffer 110 one of the
common folk (18), in any place whatsoever, to see

it. It shall provide tchefau food in Neter-khert
(i.e., the underworld) for the deceased, and for
his soul also upon earth ; it shall make him to
live for ever (19) and ever, and no evil thing
whatsoever shall gain the mastery over him.

[Osiris, the royal mother, life, health, strength !
Netchemet, life, health, strength ! saith] :—

Homage to thee, O thou who shinest from
“ the disk, thou living one, who comest forth
“ from thy double horizon ! (20) Osiris, the royal
“ mother, life, health, strength ! Netchemet, life,
“ health, strength ! the claughter of Hurere,
“ triumphant, knoweth thee, and she knoweth
“ thy divine name, and she knoweth the names of
“ (21) thy seven divine kine, and of the bull that
“ is with them. O ye who grant cakes and ale
“ unto the living ones, and who provide with
“ divine food those who are in the underworld,
“ grant ye cakes and (22) ale unto the Osiris,
“ the royal mother, Netchemet triumphant, the
“ daughter of Hurere triumphant, and provide ye
“ her with (23) divine food. Grant ye that her
“ khu may follow you unto her place which shall
“ be near unto vou.”

[H ere follow the names of the seven cows
and their bull.]

(1) Het-ka-nebt-er-tcher (i.e., House of the
ka of the lord of totality) ;

(2) Shenat-neteru (i.e., Dwelling of the
gods) (24) ;

(3) Aqert-khenti-het-set (i.e., Aqert, who
dwelleth in her house) ;

(4) Meht-khebitet sahu-neter (i.e., North and
South, the divine Sahu) ;

(5) Ur - merti - seteshertu - (25) sheni (i.e.,
Greatly belovecl is she, the red of hair) ;

(6) Khnemu-em-ankhet-anmesit (i.e., Uniter
in life to the immesit garment) ;

(7) Sekhem-ren-set-em-abet (or hemet) (i.e.,
Gainer of the mastery over her name by works) ;

(8) Ka- (26) -kau-tchai-kauit (Bull of bulls,
husband of the cows).

[Hail, O ye cows and your bulls,] “ grant ye