The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter whereby one knoweth the Powers of Pu. [ ]

Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville, 1904 · 14 paragraphs · Read at the source

112.1Oh thou of corpselike form who art in Chait and Ânpit; thou goddess of the Net, who art in Pu; ye who preside over the untilled lands, ye stars and constellations.... Know ye wherefore Pu hath been given to Horus?

112.2I know it if ye know it not.

112.3It was Râ who gave it to him in amends of the blindness in his eye, in consequence of what Râ said to Horus: “Let me look at what is happening in thine eye to-day,” and he looked at it.

112.4Râ said to Horus, “Look, pray, at that black swine.”

112.5He looked, and a grievous mishap afflicted his eye.

112.6Horus said to Râ, “Lo, my eye is as though the eye of Sutu had made a wound in my own eye.” And wrath devoured his heart.

112.7And Râ said to the gods, “Let him be laid upon his bed, that he may recover.”

112.8It was Sutu who had taken the form of a black swine, and he wrought the wound which was in the eye of Horus.

112.9And Râ said to the gods, “The swine is an abomination to Horus; may he get well.” And the swine became an abomination to Horus.

112.10And the circle of gods said, who were with him when Horus came to light in his own children: “Let the sacrificial victims for him be of his oxen, of his goats, and of his swine.”

112.11As for Emsta, Hapi, Tuamautef, Kebhsenuf, Horus is their father and Isis their mother.

112.12And Horus said to Râ, “Give me then two brothers in Pu and two brothers in Nechen, of this my own body; and that they may be with me as an everlasting renewal, through which the earth flourisheth and storms are quenched.”

112.13And his name became that of Horus upon his Column.

112.14I know the Powers of Pu: they are Horus, Emsta and Hapi.