The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter whereby the Eater of the Ass is kept back.
40.1Back, serpent Haiu, whom Osiris execrateth. May Thoth cut off thy head, and may there accrue to me whatsoever property proceedeth from thee [according to] what was decreed against thee by the Company of the gods for the accomplishment of thy slaughter.
40.2Back, thou whom Osiris execrateth, from the Neshemet galley, which saileth towards the south with favourable breeze.
40.3Pure are ye, all ye gods who overthrow the enemy of Osiris.
40.4The gods upon the larboard utter loud acclamation.
40.5Back, thou Eater of the Ass, whom the god Chas, who is in the Tuat, execrateth.
40.6Know me! ( Repeated four times).
40.7“Who art thou?”
40.8I am....
40.9Down upon thy face! thou who art eating at my sanctuary.
40.10I am the Season, which cometh at its own will.
40.11“Come not against me; thou who comest without being called, and who art unknown.”
40.12I am the master of thine utterance, and the check upon thy pride.
40.13O Ha-as, whose horns Horus doth cut: by my children, the cycle of gods in Pu and Tepit, thou art severed from thy fold and thy fold is severed from thee.
40.14And he who cutteth thee off cometh forth as the Eye of Horus; thou art kept back and assailed, and stopped by the breath of my speech.
40.15O thou god who devourest all wrong, and carriest off with violence; there is no wrong in me, my tablets are free from wrong. Let me not suffer violence before the Divine Circle; let not disaster be hurled upon me.
40.16I am he who giveth or taketh according to thy behest.
40.17Let not N be seized, let him not be devoured.
40.18He is Possessor of Life, and Sovereign Lord on the Horizon.