Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 376

362 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection Utchu-hetep.^ The smell of the things of the uraeus cometh to Pepi, as do the pyramidal loaf in Het-Seker and the thigh in the House of Anpu. Pepi is strong, the shrine standeth ready, the month is born, the nome is alive, and the towing cords are worked ; thou ploughest for wheat, thou ploughest for barley. Gifts are made to Pepi there for ever, 971. Unguent of Horus ! Unguent of Set! Horus taketh possession of his Eye, and delivereth it from his enemies ; Set hath not been able to keep it [from him]. When Horus hath filled his Eye with the unguent he is content with (or, resteth on) his Eye ; he is provided with his . . . ., he joineth himself to it, its odour is with him. Its violent wrath falleth upon his enemies. This unguent is to Pepi, he hath filled himself therewith, he hath united himself thereto, and its odour is on him ; its violent wrath shall fall on the enemies of Pepi. 974. These four Divine Kinsmen^ of Pepi, Amkest, Hep, Tuamutef, and Qebhsenuf, children of Horus of Sekhem (Letopolis), stand up, and they bind with bands the Ladder of Pepi, and they make permanent the Ladder of Pepi, and they make Pepi to approach the god Kheprer,^ when he cometh into being in the eastern sky. The god Ashsamer (?)* hath shaped with an adze the wood. The god Kas...ut,^ the Bull of Heaven, hath fastened firmly with knots the leathers (?) belonging to it. The rungs have been firmly fixed in the sides by means of the [leather made of] the skin of the god . . . .® born of the goddess Hesat.''' The goddess Sepeh-urt^ maketh it to be set up by a band under it. The Ka of Pepi is raised up [by this Ladder] to the god, and he is taken to the g-od Ruruta^ who leadeth him forward to