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Chapter 9  
     
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 Edfu the soldier looked towards the east, and, behold! there was a redness there that was like the redness of the beer that had covered the fields when Sekhmet the lion-headed Goddess saw her face reflected therein.
 
2.
 And still Edfu, crouched like the panther of the South, watched against the coming of whatever evil spirit that might strive to enter the house with malice against his father.
  
3.
 At the west side of the house Nefer-ka the scribe watched: on his lips, ready to pronounce, were the spells he had learned.
 
4.
 He had watched from the time of the going-down of the sun, from the time of the daily death of Rê.
  
5.
 And Rê, being dead, was laid on the boat that is named Semektet, the boat that is seven hundred and seventy cubits in length.
 
6.
 Nefer-ka the scribe knew what journey Rê was to make in that boat: he followed Rê on his journey through the Underworld.
  
7.
 The boat Semektet, with the dead Rê laid upon it, makes its way through the Realm of the Dead.
 
8.
 The twelve Goddesses of Night take their places in the boat to guard Rê.
 
9.
 With them goes Up-uaut, the Opener of the Ways.
 
10.
 With them goes Isis, the sister and the wife of Osiris, she to whom is known the greatest spells.
  
11.
 Slowly goes the boat of Rê, slowly it goes, passing through the Realm of the Dead.
 
12.
 At the entrance to every region there, there is a great gate.
 
13.
 The guardian of each hour speaks the name at which the gate opens; then the boat of Rê goes through.
 
14.
 And when the Goddess of the First Hour has given place to the Goddess of the Second Hour,
 
15.
 and when the Goddess of the Second Hour has given place to the Goddess of the Third Hour, the boat of Rê, the boat Semektet, comes into the region named Amentet where Osiris reigns.
  
16.
 Then, thinking of what passes during that Third Hour and in that Third Realm, the scribe Nefer-ka looked up into the sky,
 
17.
 and, behold! there were the never-vanishing stars which are the souls of those who have been justified by Osiris.
  
18.
 In the realm of Amentet Osiris reigns, Osiris who is God of the Dead.
 
19.
 All who die come before his throne for judgment.
 
20.
 Their hearts are weighed against the Feather of Truth.
 
21.
 The throne of Osiris is beside a running stream;
 
22.
 from its waters a single lotus blossom arises.
 
23.
 Upon the blossom the four children of Horus, the son of Osiris, stand, their faces towards Osiris.
 
24.
 The first has the face of a man,
 
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 the second has the face of an ape,
 
26.
 the third has the face of a jackal,
 
27.
 the fourth has the face of a bird of prey.
 
28.
 The heart of the dead man is weighed against the Feather of Truth:
 
29.
 if The man has not been purified the feather weighs down the scale, and it sinks lower and lower.
 
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 If the man has been made pure the feather sinks and the heart rises.
 
31.
 Then Thout, the God of Writing and of Reckoning, takes the heart and puts it back into the breast of the man;
 
32.
 Horus takes the man by the hand.  

 
 
 

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