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Plate XVI.
Vignette: Ani kneeling beside a pool of water, where grows a sycamore tree; in the tree appears the
goddess Nut pouring water into Ani's hands from a vessel
[1. Var. Re xemennu, "Mouth of Hermopolis."
2. This meaning is indicated by the determinative in the variant given by Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. II., Bl. 95. The whole
sentence may be a rubrical direction.
3 The text here appears to be corrupt, or at least some words have been omitted, for the equivalent passage in Lepsius
reads ###. The variant reading indicated by ki t' et shows that this passage offered difficulties to the ancient Egyptian
readers.]
{p. 315}
Text [CHAPTER LIX.]: (I) THE CHAPTER OF SNIFFING THE AIR, AND OF GETTING POWER
OVER THE WATERS IN THE UNDERWORLD. Saith Osiris Ani: "Hail, sycamore tree of the goddess
Nut! Grant thou to me of the water and the air which are in (2) thee. I embrace thy throne which is in
Unnu,[l] and I watch and guard (3) the egg of the Great Cackler. It groweth, I grow; it liveth, I live; (4) it
sniffeth the air, I sniff the air, I the Osiris Ani, in triumph."
Vignette: Ani seated upon a chair before a table of offerings; [2] in his right hand he holds the kherp
sceptre[3] and in his left a staff.
Text [CHAPTER XLIV]: (I) THE CHAPTER OF NOT DYING A SECOND TIME IN THE
UNDERWORLD.[4] Saith Osiris Ani: "My place of hiding is opened, my place of hiding is revealed!
Light hath shone (2) in the darkness. The eye of Horus hath ordered my coming into being, and the god
Apuat hath nursed me. I have hidden (3) myself with you, O ye stars that never set. My brow is like unto
that of Ra; my face is open; (4) my heart is upon its throne; I utter words, and I know; in very truth, I am
Ra himself. I am not treated with scorn, (5) and violence is not done unto me. Thy father, the son of Nut,
liveth for thee. I am thy first-born, (6) and I see thy mysteries. I am crowned like unto the king of the
gods, and I shall not die a second time in the underworld."
Vignette: The mummy of Ani embraced by Anubis, the god of the dead.
Text [CHAPTER XLV.]: (I) THE CHAPTER OF NOT CORRUPTING IN THE UNDERWORLD.
Saith Osiris Ani: "O thou who art without motion like unto Osiris! O thou who art without motion like
unto Osiris! (2) O thou whose
[1. I.e., Hermopolis.
2. For an account of the manner in which altars and other objects were represented on Egyptian monuments, see Borchardt,
Die Darstellung innen verzierter Schalen aus Aegyptischen Denkmätern (in Aeg. Zeitschrift, Bd. XXXI., 1893, p. 1).
3. For a kherp sceptre in bronze, see No. 22,842 in the 2nd Egyptian Room.
4. Chapters CLXXV. and CLXXVI. bear the same title. For Chapter CLXXV. see Plate XXIX.
Chapter CLXXVI. (Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I., Pl. cc.) reads:--
"What I hate is the land of Abydos. May I never enter into the den, and may there never be done unto me any of those
things which the gods hate, for I am . . . . pure within the Mesqet. May Neb-er-tcher give unto me his splendours on the
day of the funeral in the presence of the Lord of Things."
"If this chapter be known [he] shall be in the condition of one who is acquitted in the underworld."]
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