Coffin Texts

Coffin Texts — Breasted 1912 selected English quotations and context — sourcepage 305

MV TRIUMPH OF OSIRIS 283 acing danger which was also feared in the Pyramid Texts, the assaults of venomous serpents, must likewise be met by the people of the Feudal Age. The dead man, there fore, finds in his roll charms for " Repulsing Apophis from the Barque of Re" and for "Repulsing the Serpent which 'Afflicts1 the Kas," l not to mention also one for "Re pulsing Serpents and Repulsing Crocodiles." 2 The way of the departed was furthermore beset with fire, and he would be lost without a charm for " Going Forth from the Fire,"3 or of "Going Forth from the Fire Behind the Great God." 4 When he was actually obliged to enter the fire he might do so with safety by means of a " Chap ter of Entering Into the Fire and of Coming Forth from the Fire Behind the Sky." 5 Indeed, the priests had de vised a chart of the journey awaiting the dead, guiding him through the gate of fire at the entrance and showing the two ways by which he might proceed, one by land and the other by water, with a lake of fire between them, This Book of the Two Ways, with its map of the journey, was likewise recorded in the coffin.6 In spite of such guidance it might unluckily happen that the dead wander into the place of execution of the gods; but from this he was saved by a chapter of " Not Entering Into the Place of Execution of the Gods;7 and lest he should sud denly find himself condemned to walk head downward, he 1 LACAU, XXXV, XXXVI, Rec. 30, 187-8. 2 LACAU, LXXIII, Rec. 31, 29. "LACAU, XXXVII, Rec. 30, 188 /. « LACAU, XLIX, Rec. 30, 198. « LACAU, XLVIII, Rec. 30, 197. 6 Berlin Coffin, Das Buck von den zwei Wegen des seligen Toien, by H. ScHACK-ScHACKENBURG, Leipzig, 1903; also three coffins in Cairo, see LACAU, Sarcophages anterieures au Nouvel Empire, vol. I, Nos. 28083 and 28085, pis. lv., Ivi, Ivii; vol. II, No. 28089. Cf. also GRAPOW, Zeitschr. fur aegypt. Sprache, 46, 77 ff. 7 LACAU, LXIII, Rec. 31, 20.