thou shalt live through me day by day."

Preservation From Scalding

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 12).]

THE CHAPTER OF NOT BEING SCALDED WITH WATER. The overseer of the palace,
the chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

"I am the oar made ready for rowing, wherewith Ra transported the boat
containing the divine ancestors, and lifted up the moist emanations of
Osiris from the Lake of Fire, and he was not burned. I lie down like a
divine _Khu_, [and like] Khnemu who dwelleth among lions. Come, break away
the restraints from him that passeth by the side of this path, and let me
come forth by it."

On Coming Forth By Day

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (British Museum No. 9,900, sheets 23 and
24).]

THE CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH BY DAY IN THE UNDERWORLD. Nebseni, the lord of
reverence, saith:

"I am Yesterday, To-day, and To-morrow, [and I have] the power to be born
a second time; [I am] the divine hidden Soul who createth the gods, and
who giveth sepulchral meals unto the denizens of the Tuat (underworld),
Amentet, and heaven. [I am] the rudder of the east, the possessor of two
divine faces wherein his beams are seen. I am the lord of the men who are
raised up; [the lord] who cometh forth from out of the darkness, and whose
forms of existence are of the house wherein are the dead. Hail, ye two
hawks who are perched upon your resting-places, who hearken unto the
things which are said by him, who guide the bier to the hidden place, who
lead along Ra, and who follow [him] into the uppermost place of the shrine
which is in the celestial heights! [Hail,] lord of the shrine which
standeth in the middle of the earth. He is I, and I am he, and Ptah hath
covered his sky with crystal. [Hail] Ra, thou who art content, thy heart
is glad by reason of thy beautiful law of the day; thou enterest in by
Khemennu(?) and comest forth at the east, and the divine first-born beings
who are in [thy] presence cry out with gladness [unto thee]. Make thou thy
roads glad for me, and make broad for me thy paths when I shall set out
from earth for the life in the celestial regions. Send forth thy light
upon me, O Soul unknown, for I am [one] of those who are about to enter
in, and the divine speech is in [my] ears in the Tuat (underworld), and
let no defects of my mother be [imputed] unto me; let me be delivered and
let me be safe from him whose divine eyes sleep at eventide, when [he]
gathereth