The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter for breathing air and command of water.

Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville, 1904 · 11 paragraphs · Read at the source

58.1Let the door be opened to me!

58.2Who art thou? What is thy name?

58.3I am One of You!

58.4Who is with thee?

58.5It is the Merta.

58.6Turn away then front to front, on entering the Meskat.

58.7He grants that I may sail to the Abode of those who have found their faces.

58.8Collector of Souls is the name of my Bark, Bristler of Hair is the name of the Oars, Point is the name of its Hatch, Right and Straight the name of the Rudder.

58.9The picture of it is the representation of my glorious journey upon the Canal.

58.10Give me jars of milk and cakes and flesh meat at the House of Anubis.

58.11If this chapter is known he entereth after having gone out.