Let there be prepared for me a seat in the boat of the Sun on the day wheron the god saileth.Homage to you, O you who have come as Khepri, Khepri the creator of the gods, you are seated on your throne, you rise up in the sky, illumining your mother Nut, you are seated on your throne as the king of the gods.The Papyrus of Ani This is one of the most famous renditions of the set of spells and invocations known as "The Book of the Dead" One of the more famous examples of these works is the Papyrus of Ani. The Spells of Going Forth by Day (or Coming Forth by Day), commonly known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or simply the Book of the Dead, are ancient Egyptian funerary texts derived partly from the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were themselves used in creating the later Books of Breathing. Let there be prepared for me a seat in the boat of the Sun on the day wheron the god saileth I am one of those gods, those divine chiefs, who proved the truth-speaking of Osiris before his enemies on the day of the weighing of words. Beneficent in command and word was Isis, the woman of magical spells, the advocate of her brother. Homage to you, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy, you being of hidden form in the temples, whose Ka is holy.
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