been brought unto thee before Keb."[4] During the performance of the next five ceremonies, in which incense of various kinds was offered, the priest said:  “Thou art pure (four times).  That which is in the two eyes of Horus hath been presented unto thee with the two vases of Thoth, and they purify thee so that there may not exist in thee the power of destruction that belongeth unto thee.  Thou art pure.  Thou art pure.  Pure is the seman incense that openeth thy mouth.  Taste the taste thereof in the divine dwelling. Seman incense is the emission of Horus; it stablisheth the heart of Horus-Set, it purifieth the gods who are in the following of Horus.  Thou art censed with natron.  Thou art established among the gods thy brethren.  Thy mouth is like that of a sucking calf on the day of its birth.  Thou art censed.  Thou art censed.  Thou art pure.  Thou art pure.  Thou art established among thy brethren the gods.  Thy head is censed.  Thy mouth is censed.  Thy bones are purified. [Decay] that is inherent in thee shall not touch thee.  I have given thee the Eye of Horus,[5] and thy face is filled therewith.  Thou art shrouded in incense (say twice)."[6]

[Footnote 1:  A form of the Sun-god.]

[Footnote 2:  Originally a benevolent god:  later the great god of evil.]

[Footnote 3:  The scribe of the gods, lord of wisdom:  see pp. 1,2.]

[Footnote 4:  The Earth-god.]

[Footnote 5:  Horus gave his eye to Osiris, and thereby restored life to him.]

[Footnote 6:  Repetitions are omitted.]

The next ceremony, the ninth, represented the re-birth of the king, who was personified by a priest.  The priest, wrapped in the skin of a bull, lay on a small bed and feigned death.  When the chief priest had said, “O my father,” four times, the priest representing the king came forth from the bull’s skin, and sat up; this act symbolized the resurrection of the king in the form of a spirit-body (sahu).  The chief priest then asserted that the king was alive, and that he should never be removed, and that he was similar in every way to Horus.  The priest personifying the king then put on a special garment, and taking a staff or sceptre in his hand, said, “I love my father and his transformation.  I have made my father, I have made a statue of him, a large statue.  Horus loveth those who love him.”  He then pressed the lips of the statue, and said, “I have come to embrace thee.  I am thy son.  I am Horus.  I have pressed for thee thy mouth....  I am thy beloved son.”  The words then said by the chief priest, “I have delivered this mine eye from his mouth, I have cut off his leg,” mean that the king was delivered from the jaws of death, and that a grievous wound had been inflicted on the god of death, i.e. Set.