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the splendour of Ra, the splendour of the two goddesses that 
appear in Heset,* the supplicant Heset addresses the guardians 
who watch over the doors, who devour souls and who swallow the 
shades of the dead ; when they approach them, they are led by them 
to the place of destruction : Oh, guardians who watch over your 
doors, who swallow souls and devour the shades of the dead ; when 
they approach you, you lead them to the place of destruction : Oh ! 
allow this blessed, this most holy spirit, to be in the dwelling of the 
Akher ;+ it is a spirit like Ra, glorious like Osieis. This is what 
Heset the supplicant says before the royal Osieis. 
5 O Heset, make him come, O Heset, guide the royal Osieis, 
O Heset, open to him the empyrean, give him the lot of the god of 
the empyrean; he puts the veil nems\ upon his head at the bottom 
of the dwelling of the Ament. Hail to thee, he has reached thee; 
Heset, guide him on the good way, he speaks to thee, he glorifies 
thee by his invocations, and thou rejoicest on seeing his spirit; 
Heset, the supplicant, opens the doors which are in the empyrean, 
opens his spheres to him, for the club is in the hand of Osieis, and 
he grasps his lance; his club strikes the enemies, and his lance 
destroys the rebels ; his dwelling is that of the god of the two horizons ; 
his throne is Ra’s throne ; for he is the Hobus of two horizons.§ 
He is beautiful, this spirit, he is perfect, he is powerful in both his 
hands. 
13. After further similar adorations to 11a, in which his 
identification with Osiris is still more strongly asserted, comes 
a passage which is almost a transcript of one of the chapters of 
the Ritual of the Dead, in which the various members of the 
royal Osirian are likened to those of different deities who had 
them under their especial protection. According to the 
Egyptian theology, “ there is not a limb of him without his 
god, a conception from which the theory of planetary influences 
on* the human body, which was so essentially characteristic of 
the medicine of the Middle Ages, was derived. 
8 The royal Osibian is one of you, for his diadem is a vulture ; his face 
is a sparrow-hawk, his head is Ra ; his eyes are the Rehti, the two 
sisters ; his nose is Hobus of the empyrean ; his mouth is the King 
of the Ament ; his lungs are Nun'; his two hands are the god 
* £, ne halls of the empyrean, which is here considered as a goddess 
t the region of the under-world. 
I The striped headdress generally worn on the statues of the kings, 
bee tins fully described in a paper by S. Sharpe, in Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch., 
v °h 17 - § Horus as the planet Mars. 
