t the Judge of words and deeds, the
Chief of chief judges, who stablishest truth, and doest away sin. May he
who attacketh me be judged rightly, behold, he is stronger than I am; he
hath seized upon my office, and hath carried it off with falsehood. May
it be restored to me."

HYMN TO OSIRIS

"[Praise be] unto thee, O thou who extendest thine arms, who liest
asleep on thy side, who liest on the sand, the Lord of the earth, the
divine mummy.... Thou art the Child of the Earth Serpent, of great age.
Thy head ... and goeth round over thy feet. Ra-Khepera shineth upon thy
body, when thou liest on thy bed in the form of Seker, so that he may
drive away the darkness that shroudeth thee, and may infuse light in thy
two eyes. He passeth a long period of time shining upon thee, and
sheddeth tears over thee. The earth resteth upon thy shoulders, and its
corners rest upon thee as far as the four pillars of heaven. If thou
movest thyself, the earth quaketh, for thou art greater than.... [The
Nile] appeareth out of the sweat of thy two hands. Thou breathest forth
the air that is in thy throat into the nostrils of men; divine is that
thing whereon they live. Through thy nostrils (?) subsist the flowers,
the herbage, the reeds, the flags (?), the barley, the wheat, and the
plants whereon men live. If canals are dug ... and houses and temples
are built, and great statues are dragged along, and lands are ploughed
up, and tombs and funerary monuments are made, they [all] rest upon
thee. It is thou who makest them. They are upon thy back. They are more
than can be done into writing (_i.e._ described). There is no vacant
space on thy back, they all lie on thy back, and yet [thou sayest] not,
"I am [over] weighted therewith. Thou art the father and mother of men
and women, they live by thy breath, they eat the flesh of thy members.
'Pautti' (_i.e._ Primeval God) is thy name." The writer of this hymn
says in the four broken lines that remain that he is unable to
understand the nature (?) of Osiris, which is hidden (?), and his
attributes, which are sublime.

HYMN TO SHU

The following Hymn is found in the Magical Papyrus (Harris, No. 501),
which is preserved in the British Museum. The text is written in the
hieratic character, and reads:

"Homage to thee, O flesh and bone of Ra, thou first-born son who didst
proceed from his members, who wast chosen to be the chief of those w