m No. 10,477, sheet 10).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO A SWALLOW. The
chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

"I am a swallow, I am a swallow. I am the Scorpion, the daughter of Ra.
Hail, ye gods, whose scent is sweet; hail, ye gods, whose scent is sweet!
[Hail,] Flame, which cometh forth from the horizon! Hail, thou who art in
the city, I have brought the Warden of his Bight therein. Oh, stretch out
unto me thy hand so that I may be able to pass my days in the Pool of
Double Fire, and let me advance with my message, for I have come with
words to tell. Oh, open [thou] the doors to me and I will declare the
things which have been seen by me. Horus hath become the divine prince of
the Boat of the Sun, and unto him hath been given the throne of his divine
father Osiris, and Set, that son of Nut, [lieth] under the fetters which
he had made for me. I have made a computation of what is in the city of
Sekhem, I have stretched out both my hands and arms at the word(?) of
Osiris, I have passed on to judgment, and I have come that [I] may speak;
grant that I may pass on and declare my tidings. I enter in, [I am]
judged, and [I] come forth worthy at the gate of Neb-er-tcher. I am pure
at the great place of the passage of souls, I have done away with my sins,
I have put away mine offences, and I have destroyed the evil which
appertained unto my members upon earth. Hail, ye divine beings who guard
the doors, make ye for me a way, for, behold, I am like unto you. I have
come forth by day, I have journeyed on on my legs, I have gained the
mastery over my footsteps [before] the God of Light, I know the hidden
ways and the doors of the Sekhet-Aaru, verily I, even I, have come, I have
overthrown mine enemies upon earth, and yet my perishable body is in the
grave!"

IF THIS CHAPTER BE KNOWN [BY THE DECEASED], HE SHALL COME FORTH BY DAY, HE
SHALL NOT BE TURNED BACK AT ANY GATE IN THE UNDERWORLD, AND HE SHALL MAKE
HIS TRANSFORMATION INTO A SWALLOW REGULARLY AND CONTINUALLY.

The Serpent Sata

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 11).]

THE CHAPTER OF MAKING THE TRANSFORMATION INTO THE SERPENT SATA. The
chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

"I am the serpent Sata whose years are many.(54) I die and I am born again
each day. I am the serpent Sata which dwelleth in the uttermost parts of
the earth. I die, and I am born again, and I renew myself, and I grow
young each day."