The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

Renouf, P. Le Page (Peter Le Page), 1822-1897, Naville, Edouard, 1844-1926

Chapter 672: 5. The throne of Osiris in pictures of the Psychostasia (_see_ Vignettes

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Chapter 672: 5. The throne of Osiris in pictures of the Psychostasia (_see_ Vignettes

to Chapter 125) rests upon water, out of which there springs a lotus flower; and upon this flower stand the four children of Horus. In a passage of chapter 147, which is an adaptation of the present chapter, the deceased says ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _La_, “I am he whose stream is secret.” And a Pyramid Text (_Merenrā_, 188, 193) after mention of the Great Valley ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and of the investiture (⁂) proceeds, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “thy water, thy fresh current, is a great inundation proceeding from thee.” Here the deceased is identified with the Nile and its inundation, as in
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