The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter of the vulture of gold, put on the neck of the deceased.

Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville, 1904 · 5 paragraphs · Read at the source

157.1Isis has arrived; she hovers over the dwellings, and she searches all the hidden abodes of Horus when he comes out of the Northern marshes, knocking down him whose face is evil.

157.2She causes him to join the Bark, and grants him the sovereignty over the worlds.

157.3When he has fought a big fight, he decrees what must be done in his honour; he causes fear of him to arise, and he creates terror.

157.4His mother, the Great one, uses her protective power, which she has handed over to Horus.

157.5Said on a vulture of gold. If this Chapter is written on it, it protects the deceased, the powerful one, on the day of the funeral, undeviatingly for times infinite.