CHAPTER II

1 Worship of the Spheric Gods, when Rā sets in life. Hail, gods of

the spheres, gods who are in the Ament, perfect gods ...(626) the

enemies of Rā, you make the universal covering(627) grow ...(628)

you worship the god who is in his disk ...(629) thou commandest

thy enemies, great god who art upon the horizon; four times. Thou

commandest thy enemies, Osiris Temt; four times.

2 The royal Osiris commands his enemies in heaven and upon earth,

by authority of all the gods and all the goddesses, by authority

of Osiris Chentament, because the royal Osiris is Rā himself, the

great inhabitant of the heavens, he speaks in the presence of

Ament. The King governs by favor of the great powers. The royal

Osiris is pure, what is in him is pure, the royal Osiris governs

the two worlds, the royal Osiris commands his enemies; four times.

3 He is powerful, Rā in the empyrean, he is powerful, Rā in the

empyrean. He traverses the empyrean with joy, for he has struck

Apap;(630) there is joy for thee, god of the horizon, Osiris, King

of the Ament, there is joy for thy triumphant spirit, for thou

destroyest his enemies; thou art delighted, Tesherti, red spirit

who openest the Ament. Thou givest thy hand to Osiris, thou art

received in the good Ament, and the gods rejoice over thee. Osiris

gives thee his hand, thou art received by Chentament. He is

brilliant, the spirit of Rā in the empyrean, he is brilliant, the

body of Teb Temt. Rā commands in the empyrean, because he has

struck Apap. Teb Temt commands; he worships the spirit of the two

horizons; the spirit of the two horizons worships him.

4 The royal Osiris receives dominion over his enemies from the

great powers of the mysterious avenger, he who reveals the

mysterious empyrean, who dissipates the darkness, who chases away

the rain, he who hurries, and who makes the blessed servants of Rā

come forth. He(631) sees the body of the god when he assumes forms

with a mysterious name, when he sheds his rays in obscurity, and

when he hides the uncovered bodies; when he traverses the

mysterious spheres and when he gives eyes to their gods; they

themselves see him, and their spirits are blessed.

5 Hail, Rā! give eyes to the royal Osiris, give him divine

eyeballs, and may they guide the royal Osiris. Hail, Rā! give a

heart to the royal Osiris; he traverses the earth, he traverses

the world like Rā.

6 Thou takest care that what thou commandest to exist, exists;

thou rulest the royal Osiris like Chuti(632) and the King honors

thy spirit, he glorifies thee.

7 Thou commandest Osiris to be like Khuti, the brilliant triangle

which appears in the shining place.

8 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the mysterious spirit which

comes forth from the mysterious place.

9 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the blessed spirit which comes

forth from the blessed place.

10 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the destructive spirit which

comes forth from the place of destruction.

11 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the revealing spirit which

comes forth from the opening.

12 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the elevated spirit which

comes forth from the high place.

13 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the hidden spirit which comes

forth from the Ament.

14 Deliver him from the crocodiles which frighten the spirits,

like geese; let them not do their work upon the royal Osiris, in

the presence of the gods armed with swords; may Osiris never fall

into their furnaces, may their nets never entangle him; his spirit

flies away and soars into the heavens, his spirit returns and

enters into the empyrean, because the royal Osiris knows the

mysteries which are in the empyrean, the secret forms of Osiris,

that none of his servants know, in the secret of his hidden

dwelling. Hail! the royal Osiris knows thy form, great and

mysterious god.

15 Deliver the royal Osiris from the agile demons furnished with

legs, from the cruel gods who pluck out hearts and who throw them

into their furnaces. May they never do their work upon the royal

Osiris, may they never put him in their furnaces, because Osiris

is Rā; and reciprocally. His soul is that which is in the disk.

His body is in the middle of the hidden gods; they make Osiris

rule, Osiris makes them rule; he commands, and he rests as you

rest in the Ament.

16 The soul of Rā shines in his shape, his body rests amid the

invocations which are addressed to him; he enters into the

interior of his white disk, he lights the empyrean with his rays,

he creates it, he makes the souls remain in their bodies, they

praise him from the height of their pedestal. He receives the

acclamations of all the gods who open the doors, the hidden

essences who prepare the way for Rā’s soul, and who allow the King

of souls access to the fields. He traverses his disk himself; he

calls (to life) the body of Kat;(633) he places the gods of the

stars upon their legs; these latter make the god An(634) come at

their hours; the two sisters join themselves to him, they decorate

his head, as a spirit worthy of adornment.

17 O, Rā, place the royal Osiris in thy train; he is the divine

key which opens his haunts, he knows admirable means of obtaining

the great victory over his enemies; Osiris is powerful through thy

two eyes; walking god, the course of Osiris is thy course. Rā, the

journeys of Osiris are thy journeys, Osiris makes thee rule over

thy enemies, thou makest Osiris rule over his enemies, by means of

the great splendor which is the splendor of Rā in the empyrean,

they cry to him: Bull of the country of the dead, thou art Rā, thy

body rests in peace, thou art blessed in thy mysteries.

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