The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter for breathing air and command of water in the Nether world.
57.1Let the Great One be opened to Osiris; let the two folding doors of Kabhu be thrown wide to Râ.
57.2O thou great Coverer of Heaven, in thy name of Stretcher [of Heaven], grant that I may have the command of water, even as Sut hath command of force on the night of the Great Disaster: grant that I may prevail over those who preside at the Inundation, even as that venerable god prevaileth over them, whose name they know not. May I prevail over them.
57.3My nostril is opened in Tattu, and I go to rest in Heliopolis, my dwelling, which the goddess Seshait built, and which Chnum raised on its foundation.
57.4If the Sky is at the North I sit at the South; if the Sky is at the South I sit at the North; if the Sky is at the West I sit at the East; and if the Sky is at the East I sit at the West.
57.5And drawing up my eyebrows I pierce through into every place that I desire.