The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter whereby water is drank in the Netherworld.

Peter Le Page Renouf and Édouard Naville, 1904 · 10 paragraphs · Read at the source

62.1Let the Great One be opened to Osiris; let the Kabhu be thrown wide to Thoth, the Coverer, Lord of the Horizon in his name of the Divider of the Earth.

62.2May I have command of the water even as the might of Sutu had over his enemies.

62.3It is I who traverse the Heaven:

62.4I am Râ:

62.5I am the god in Lion form:

62.6I am the Steer;

62.7I eat the haunch, and pierce through the joint.

62.8I go round the Sechit-Aarru.

62.9There hath been assigned to me Eternity, without end.

62.10And lo! I am the Heir of Endless Time, and my attribute is Eternity.