Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

76 CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

standing at the arms of the balance on this ap-
pointed day for chopping off heads and severing
necks, for snatching out quivering hearts and
scorching them on the brazier at the lake of fire—
I read ye—I read your names, and as I read ye so
do ye perform,—I approach ye and do ye also ap-
proach me, I live with you and do you also live with
me,—grant me the luxuries of life among you under
your thumbs—give me the luxury of the life of your
palates, grant me infinite years upon the years of
my life, grant me infinite days upon the days of my
life, and infinite nights upon the nights of my life,
till I be healed, till I shine, till the breaths of your
nostrils have become like phalanxes and be seen like
the phalanxes in the horizon on this day of swathing
the mighty one."

363. Divers names of deities, things, and places.

364. Chapters 51 and 52 of the Book of the
Dead.—Chapter 51. The chapter on not going into
the refectory in Purgatory. " Saith the Osirian
Hemut Unnu, deceased, This fish, this fish, I cannot
eat it, this rotten fish, I cannot eat it. My mind is
made up, I will not sniff it. I will not lift it with
my arms, I will not approach it with the soles of my
feet." Chapter 52. The chapter on not eating rot-
teness in Purgatory. " Saith the Osirian Hemut
Unnu, deceased, This fish, this fish, I cannot eat it,
this rotten fish, I cannot eat it. Don't alarm your-
selves, it sticks in my gizzard. I will not lift it
with my arms, I will not approach it with the soles
of my feet, if you live from it by way of food, your
divinity will fail, but if you cast it away, you are