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Secheni ;* ** his fingers are the gods who seize him ; his body is 
Chepra ; his heart is Hoeus, the creator ; his chest is the goddess 
of life; his spleen is the god Fenti ;+ his luDgs are the goddess 
Heti ; his stomach (?) is App ; his intestines, the god with the 
mysterious names his back is the corpse-god ; his elbows are 
Makati ; the nape of his neck, Hortts Thoth ; his lips, Mehur ; 
his phallus is Tonen ;§ the goddess of Cher ; the 
two hidden gods; his sitting posture, the two goddesses ;|| his legs, 
“he who traverses the hidden places ” his shin-bones are a 
ura3us. ## His members are gods, he is throughout a god, no one of 
his members is without a god, the gods are of his substanoe.ft The 
royal Osiris is an intelligent essence, his members guide him, his 
flesh opens the way to him, those who are born of him create him, 
they rest when they have given birth to him. The royal Osiris is 
he who gives them birth, it is he who begets them, it is he who makes 
them exist ; his birth is that of Ba in the Ament, Ba gives birth to 
the royal Osiris, he causes his own birth. 
14. Still continuing in the same strain, the Litany alter- 
nately invokes all the various deities of the Elysium, and declares 
them subordinate to the royal Osirian by virtue of his identi- 
fication with Ra, the Supreme God, and then all the deities are 
again thus supplicated : — 
9 Oh, ye gods! oh, ye blessed! who precede Ba and who escort his spirit ! 
do to the royal Osirian as to Ba, tow him with you in the same way 
that you conduct Ba and the two navigating gods in the heavens 
the royal Osirian is Ba himself, and Ba is himself reciprocally ; he 
is the Chief of his worshippers, who gives life to the forms. 
15. The last section of the Litany of Ra concludes with a 
mysterious invocation to the material Heavens themselves, in 
that respect also being analogous to the final chapters of the 
* He who embraces. 
■f The god of the nose. Each part of the body of the deceased becomes 
a god. The same is found in the funereal texts, and especially in the 
Ritual of the Dead, cap. xlii. 
X Osiris. § The god Osiris was a hermaphrodite being. 
|| Isis and Nephthys. *j\ The god Atum. 
** The sacred serpent of eternal life. 
ft Or, are of like substance with him. All these subtleties remind one 
of the homoiousian controversies of the early church. 
That is, the deceased monarch was hereafter to share the glories of 
the god Ba, to sit on his throne, and to sail with him, as himself, through 
the regions of the upper and under worlds as the visible sun. 
