Book
of the Dead Chapter 21
The composition exists in
the Middle Kingdom, numbered by de Buck as Coffin Text 351.
The
version follows the partly damaged version in the Book of the Dead of Nu (Lapp
1997: pl.24), completed from various sources by Naville in his standard
edition of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period papyri.
r n rdit r
n wsir N n.f m Xrt-nTr
i.nD Hr.k nb Ssp xnty
Hwt-aAt Hry-tp kkw smAw
ii.n.i xr.k Ax.ti wab.ti
awy.ky HA.k dni.k tpw.k
rdi.k n.i r.i mdw.i im.f
sSm wi ib.i r wnwt.f
nbdt grH
Formula for giving the
mouth of the Osiris N to him in the underworld
Hail lord of light, foremost
of the Great Temple, master of complete darkness,
I have come before you
who are transfigured and pure,
your two arms behind
you, restraining your uppers,
so that you may give
me my mouth for me to speak with it,
and so that my heart
may guide me at its evil night hour
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