Egyptian Book of the Dead

CHAPTER XCIV.

CHAPTER XCIV. Chapter whereby one prayeth for a Palette and an Inkstand. Oh mighty one, who seest thy father, and who hast charge of the Book of Thoth. Here am I, I come and am glorified and filled with Soul and Power and provided with the writings of Thoth, which I bring in order to purify the tunnel which is in Sutu.( 1 ) I bring the Palette and I bring the Inkstand as the instruments of Thoth, the secrets of which are divine. Here am I, as the Scribe; I bring the remains of Osiris;( 2 ) and the writing which I have made upon them is decreed by the great god to be good, daily, among the good. Thou hast decreed, Horus of the Two Horizons, that I shall be the author of Maāt and tend( 3 ) it daily to Rā. Notes. 1. In Sutu ; that is, in Darkness. See chapter 96. 2. The remains , [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] . This word, though commonly applied to corruption and impurity of dead matter, is taken in an inoffensive sense when applied to the gods. Compare, e.g. , Pepi I , line 477 and following. 3. Tend , [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] mesi (not sebi ) stretch out, pandere , protendere .