Book of the Dead Chapter 102
Chapter 102 is an incantation for enabling the dead individual to join the sun-god in the sky, and for sustaining the dead individual with food for eternity.
There are no written sources
earlier than the New Kingdom
The version below is that in the Book of the Dead of Nu, now preserved in the British Museum (BM ESA 10477: Lapp 1996, pl.80); a damaged copy is on the New Kingdom Book of the Dead of Nebetawy, UC 71005:
r n hAt r wiA n ra Dd-mdw in N:
xrp.i sqdwt.k m irt.k iptn
nty m ixmw-wrd
bwt.i pw Hs nn wnm.i sw
Htp kA.i nn xmy im.f
Hr-ntt t.i m bty HDt
Hnqt.i m it dSr
in sktt anDt in n.i st
wxA dyt dmiw Hr xAt nt bAw iwnw
iwaw qaH wart pw
ii.n.i psg.i iwa Ts.i qaH sHry.i wart pw
O great god who is in his boat, bring me into your boat,
that I may direct your crew in those your tasks,
those who are among the unwearying
My ka is content: i will never
touch it,
I will never rise to it with
my arms,
and my beer of red barley,
it is the evening and morning boat that bring them to me.
The gifts of the towns are offered on the table of the powers of Iunu.
Hail you who are greatest of their making,
My arrival means that I spit on the innards, bind the arm, raise the thigh.
The crew boards as Ra commands.
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