Coffin Texts

Coffin Texts — Breasted 1912 selected English quotations and context — sourcepage 301

TRIUMPH OF OSIRIS 279 robber of early morning.1 . . . Thou goest around the countries with Re; he lets thee see the pleasant places, thou findest the valleys filled with water for washing thee and for cooling thee, thou pluckest marsh-flowers and heni-blossoms, lilies and lotus-flowers. The bird- pools come to thee by thousands, lying in thy path; when thou hast hurled thy boomerang against them, it is a thousand that fall at the sound of the wind thereof. They are ro-geese, green-fronts, quails, and kunuset.2 I cause that there be brought to thee the young gazelles, Hbullocks1 of white bulls; I cause that there be brought to thee males of goats and grain-fed males of sheep. There is fastened for thee a ladder to the sky. Nut gives to thee her two arms. Thou sailest in the Lily- lake. Thou bearest the wind in an eight-ship. These two fathers (Re and Atum) of the Imperishable Stars and of the Unweariable Stars sail thee. They command thee, they tow thee through the district with their im perishable ropes/' 3 In another Solar-Osirian chapter, after the deceased is crowned, purified, and glorified, he enters upon the Solar voyage as in the Pyramid Texts. It is then said of him: "Brought to thee are blocks of silver and ^masses^ of malachite. Hathor, mistress of Byblos, she makes the rudders of thy ship. ... It is said to thee, 'Come into the broad-hall/ by the Great who are in the temple. Bared to thee are the Four Pillars of the Sky, thou seest the secrets that are therein, thou stretchest out thy two legs upon the Pillars of the Sky and the wind is sweet to thy nose." 4 1 Thus far the picture is Osirian; it now becomes Solar. 2 Varieties of wild fowl. 3 LACAU, XXII, Rec. 29, 143 ff. * LACAU, XX, Rec. 27, 221-6.