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have knowledge of potent spells. Utter not the name of the great God.” — 
Renouff s translation. 
B y these adjurations the crocodile is repelled. 
20. Four other crocodiles now approach, one from each 
quarter of the world ; but these are also driven back by the 
Osirian, with the following precations : — 
“ My father saves me from the eight crocodiles. Back, crocodile of the 
west, living off those that never rest, I am not given to thee. Back, croco- 
dile in the east, do not turn me, I have not been given to thee. Back, 
crocodile of the south, living off the unclean, do not gore me with thy claw, 
I am not given to thee. Back, crocodile of the north, spit thou thy venom 
away from my head, I am not given to thee. My face is open, my heart is 
in its place, my head is on me daily ; I am the sun creating himself, no evil 
thing injures me ” (chap, xxxii.). 
21. These driven away, a viper approaches the Osirian, 
which, with a spear, he turns back, addressing it thus : — 
Fig. 67. The Osirian repelling the viper Ku in Amenti. (Sharpe, as above.) 
“ 0 walking viper, makest thou Seb and Shu (the deities) stop. Thou 
hast eaten the abominable rat of the sun ; thou hast devoured the bones of 
the filthy cat ” (chap, xxxiii.). 
Or— 
“ 0 viper Ru, advance not. Mine is the virtue of Seb and Shu. Thou 
hast eaten the rat which the sun abominates.”* 
22. Other combats follow; the deceased and the reptiles, 
against which he contends, mutually insulting and menacing 
each other in a perfectly Homeric fashion. At last, in the 
39th chapter, a serpent sent forth from Apophis attacks him, 
breathing out venom and fire, but in vain ; with his weapon 
the Osirian repels the reptiles, accompanying the action with 
these words : — 
“ Back, thou precursor, the sent forth from Apophis ; thou shalt be 
* This is the'literal rendering of 
Seb and Shu.” — Renouf. 
a passage, which 
means simply, “ I am 
