Egyptian Book of the Dead

CHAPTER XCII.

CHAPTER XCII. Chapter whereby the Tomb is opened to the Soul and to the Shade of the person, that he may come forth by day and may have mastery of his feet. That standeth open which thou openest, and that is closed which thou closest, oh thou who art at rest;( 1 ) thou openest and thou closest to my Soul, at the bidding of the Eye of Horus: who delivereth me, who establisheth the glory upon the brow of Rā: [the god] of stretched out steps and rapid paces, who maketh for me a wide path and vigorous limbs. I am Horus, the avenger of his father, who lifteth up his father and who lifteth up his mother with his staff. Let the path be opened to him who hath mastery of his feet, that he may look upon the great god within the Bark of Rā on the day of the Soul’s Reckoning; and my Soul is then at the front during the Reckoning of the Years. 161 May the Eye of Horus deliver for me my Soul, and establish my splendour upon the brow of Rā, and may my radiance be upon your faces who are attached to the person of Osiris: imprison not my Soul, put not in custody my Shade. Let the path be open to my Soul and to my Shade that it may see the great god within his sanctuary, on the day of the Soul’s Reckoning, and may repeat the words of Osiris whose place is unseen, and of those who are attached to the person of Osiris and have the custody of Souls and Spirits, and who shut up the Shades of the Dead who would do an injury to me.( 2 ) Let the path be thrown open( 3 ) to thy Genius [91] and to thy Soul, Glorified one, who art provided with those who conduct thee; sit thou at the head of the Great ones in thy place; thou shalt not be imprisoned by those who are attached to the person of Osiris and who have the custody of Souls and Spirits and who shut up the Shades of the Dead. It is Heaven that shall hold thee. Notes. 1. I cannot agree with those who have hitherto translated this chapter. The only grammatical interpretation which seems possible for the first sentence depends upon the sense given to the suffix [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] tȧ . I take this as representing the second person singular. [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] , the person at rest (Osiris) is the one invoked, and is here translated by the vocative. 2. The words which follow are evidently the words of Osiris and those attached to him, which are addressed to the deceased and are repeated by him. The text here, as indeed everywhere, is very corrupt. 3. Thrown open , [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] . I have explained the sense of the verb [Source image: ⁂] mes ( Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch. , 1882, p. 70) as stretching out , of which notion [Source image: ⁂] is the determinative. [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] is = [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] × [Source image: ⁂] . Mesi uat is ‘pandatur via.’ 91 . 162 The Egyptian ka .