Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

82 CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.

the name of this Mazd among them in the dwelling
of Osiris, with a dart in his hand, invisible, wandering
upon the earth in fiery flame, whose measure Hapi
has written. Never has the deceased justified
Osirian Hemut Unnu seen such healthy exercise on
the earth with Ra, nor such pleasant rest with
Osiris. My dinners there cannot be exceeded in
daintiness even because he is a servant of the True
God, in the ordinances of the Creator. The Osirian
Hemut Unnu deceased soars like a hawk, and swills
like a goose, and like Nahvek he will never be de-
stroyed."

Explanation. " This is Anubis. This is Horus,
worshipped in Sichomp. Others say, this is Horus
of the (grcve ?); others say, the Harbinger Gods
who keep off the enemies of the true God from him.
Others say, this is Horjennu, of the (grove). Let
them not toss me therein, let me not go near their
horns."

Explanation. " These dishes of exceeding dainti-
ness signify, the image here of Ra, with the image
of the Eye of Horus, Oh Lord of the Palace, Cap-
tain of the Gods, save thou the Osirian Hemut Unnu,
deceased, from this divinity therein, in the form of a
cat, with the brows like mankind, who feeds upon the
damned. This circuit of the lake of fire devours the
body, pierces the heart, and tears corpses in a way
never was seen, the explanation whereof is—Its name
is Devourer of myriads of years, and it is at the lake
in Phoenicia, which is hard by the lake of fire, in
Emperotf (the desert),"