“Glory be to thee, O Osiris Un-nefer, the great god within Abydos, king of eternity and lord of everlastingness, the god who passest through millions of years in thy existence.  Thou art the eldest son of the womb of Nut, thou wast engendered by Seb, the Ancestor of the gods, thou art the lord of the Crowns of the North and of the South, and of the lofty white crown.  As Prince of the gods and of men thou hast received the crook, and the whip, and the dignity of thy divine fathers.  Let thy heart which is in the mountain of Ament [Footnote:  i.e., the underworld.] be content, for thy son Horus is established upon thy throne.  Thou art crowned the lord of Tattu (Mendes) and ruler in Abtu (Abydos).  Through thee the world waxeth green in triumph before the might of Neb-er-tcher. [Footnote:  A name of Osiris.] Thou leadest in thy train that which is, and that which is not yet, in thy name of ‘Ta-her-sta-nef;’ thou towest along the earth in thy name of ‘Seker;’ thou art exceedingly mighty and most terrible in thy name of ‘Osiris;’ thou endurest for ever and for ever in thy name of ‘Un-nefer.’”

“Homage to thee, O thou King of kings, Lord of lords, Prince of Princes!  From the womb of Nut thou hast ruled the world and the underworld.  Thy body is of bright and shining metal, thy head is of azure blue, and the brilliance of the turquoise encircleth thee.  O thou god An, who hast had existence for millions of years, who pervadest all things with thy body, who art beautiful in countenance in the Land of Holiness (i.e., the underworld), grant thou to me splendour in heaven, might upon earth, and triumph in the underworld.  Grant thou that I may sail down to Tattu like a living soul, and up to Abtu like the phoenix; and grant that I may enter in and come forth from the pylons of the lands of the underworld without let or hindrance.  May loaves of bread be given unto me in the house of coolness, and offerings of food and drink in Annu (Heliopolis), and a homestead for ever and for ever in the Field of Reeds [Footnote:  A division of the “Fields of Peace” or Elysian Fields.] with wheat and barley therefor.”

In the long and important hymn in the Papyrus of Hunefer [Footnote:  See The Chapters of Coming Forth By Day, pp. 343-346.] occurs the following petition, which is put into the mouth of the deceased:—­

“Grant that I may follow in the train of thy Majesty even as I did upon earth.  Let my soul be called [into the presence], and let it be found by the side of the lords of right and truth.  I have come into the City of God, the region which existed in primeval time, with [my] soul, and with [my] double, and with [my] translucent form, to dwell in this land.  The God thereof is the lord of right and truth, he is the lord of the tchefau food of the gods, and he is most holy.  His land draweth unto itself every land; the South cometh sailing down the river thereto, and the North, steered thither