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Khen.* iSing ^ the FUle Which he haS Made begin8 ’ risi °g ia Suten 
fatbeTo^L^ G0d T C ™ atiD Z himself - Jt is or Nu, who is the 
bod v ttfel a r Um eXpkin iL TLe S,m i8 the creator of bis 
body, the engenderer of the gods, who are the successors of the Sun 
nr « ° ne) , DeVer St0pped by tbe g0ds - Let him explain it. Turn 
heaven + “ o C t ^ ^ ^ the ea8tern b ° riz0n o( 
heaven.f O Creator, dwelling m his bark, forming his own body or 
forming h,s body eternally, save thou the Osirian from those who are 
guarrhis 1 " 118 jU tr Pl3Ced by the L ° rd ° f Spirits as be ™bes to 
guard his enemies. Khepera in his boat is the Sun himself, the gods 
guardians and judges are the Apes, Isis, and Nephthys.”+ 
takenA J ^ sectiou l from ^ch these extracts are 
taken is full of obscurities ; much of it is written in a precatory 
vh ii 'noTa^e rUbricS and -terrogaK 
cli not a few of the sentences are designed as a reply 
O Jscure, however, as the whole is, still there is no uncertainty m 
ie general import of the paragraphs which are addressed to Ra 
^-Passing over many intermediate chapters, in two of which 
the Osirian entreats the god to give him “ the delicious breath of 
ti m e^vhen S th e S petltl0n ' vhlch , Wrongly reminds one of the 
hwb f rr h S “P reme Being breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and man became a living soul, II we come next 
to that magnificent address to the midnight sun in Hades 
uch has been often quoted, and which forms the CXYYth 
c lapter of the Ritual , and is supposed to belong to the period 
fVnrn n e b SOU Ofthe deceased ; justified by Horus the Deliverer 
sT and /ntT 5 -7 ^ Ved t0 COmmence it. passage to the 
Sun, and to take its place among the gods of the orbit.^ 
1 fn D th? le fi 0f the + f ity of Bubastes, or Buto, in Lower Egypt 
y G-T ii. r 7.“ d lYi " tte oha P ter of “ living the Brealh in Hade,.” 
fhe Passage to the Sun. The book of viritVlnrv +1 i r 
of letting it go to the Boat of the sun to nass thP S * a so . ul f° r ever : 
Done on the Day of the Birth of the Osiris ” This th tbe Rate ' 
tion of the soul to a new and nnpiflori rf 8 • • s .^ e re8urrec - 
regeneration. pU " bed llfe - a 8 P ir ‘t™l post-mortal 
