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In several New Kingdom manuscripts,
including the Book of the Dead of Hepres (UC 71000),
this chapter is among the Formulae for assuming the shape of a divine being
animal, or bird, though Chapter 124 more often bears the title 'for entering
the Great Temple'. In the papyrus of Hepres, 'Chapters' 124, 83 and 84 occur
together; their relation to the other sequences of chapters on the fragments
of the papyrus is not certain. The following version is from that found in
Papyrus Cairo 2512, an Eighteenth Dynasty manuscript where the same three
formulae, 'Chapters' 124, 83 and 84, also occur together in that order.
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bnw
qd bA.i xnrt m ddw
HDw m dp skA.n.i AHwt.i m
sxt-iArw
iw.i Hr mAmA.i mnw Hr.s
Hr-ntt bwt.i pw Hs n wnm.i
sw
bwt.i bwt.i Hs n wnm.i sw
Htp kA.i n anx.i im.s n xmy.i
im.s n ar.i n.f m awy.i
n xnd.i Hr.f m tbwty.i
Hr-ntt t.i m bty HDt Hnqt.i
m bty dSrt
in sktt mandt inn st wnm.i
Xrt.i mAw isrw
iw.i rx.kwi rmnw
nfrw
ix ir.tw n.i sAxt HDt Ts wi
in arwt
i.iry-aA sHtp-tAwy iry nw
Htp.k
fA n.i sAtw wn n.i Axw rmnw.f
xr.i
wsr m pt
m-m
ir nTr nb nTrt nbt DA.t.fy
(r).i im
sip.tw.f n tpyw-a ra sip.tw.f
n sSsp Hnmmt
iw Axw Hbsw pt m-m wrw
iw Xrt.i im t m r.i nTr
aq.i Hr itn pr.i Hr iHw
swsf.i mdw.i n Smsw ntrw
wbn.i m itn Hnmmt.f
nrw.i imyw smAw m nw mHt-wrt
r-gs imy-nhd.f
isk wi im Hna wsir tmA.i r
tmA.f m-m wrw
Dd.i n.f mdw rmT wHm.i n.f
mdw nTrw
ii Ax apr sar.k mAat mrr.s
ink apr Axw nbw
Formula for taking the form
of the benu-bird
My soul builds an enclosure in Djedu
My white loaves are in Dep, I have ploughed my fields in the Field of Reeds
I am on my dom-palm, Min is upon it
For excrement is my abomination,
I have not eaten it
Excrement is my abomination,
twice, I have not eaten it
My ka is content; I have not
lived on it, not touched it, raised my hands to it
I have not trodden
upon it with my soles
For my bread is of white emmer,
my beer is of red emmer
Evening and the Morning Boat
bring it to me, and I eat my portion under the branches
I know the fair carriers
May there be made for me the
hymn of the White Crown, may I be carried by the cobras
O door-keeper of the Contentment
of the Two Lands, make the time of your offering
Bring me the branches, may
the Illuminated One open his arms before me
May I be mighty
in the sky among (them)
As for any god or goddess
opposing me there
May he be allotted to the
ancestors of Ra, allotted to the taking of the Sun Retinue
The Illuminated One clothing
the sky among the great (gods)
My portion is there, bread
in my mouth, for the god,
I enter by the sun disk, and
go out by the camp (originally 'Moon')
My speech is relayed to the
followers of the gods
I shine in the sun-disk for
his Sun Retinue
The fear of me fills the murderers
in the flood of Mehytweret beside Imynehedef
I am there with Osiris, my
mat is by his mat among the great (gods)
I tell him the words of people,
I repeat to him the words of the gods
'Come, equipped
spirit, and raise the Truth of the one who loves her'.
I am equipped more
than any spirit
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