Existential Atlas

Plates XXXV & XXXVI

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and XXXVI. Vignette: A hall, within which, on the left, Ani stands before two tables of offerings bearing libation water and lotus-flowers, with hands raised, adoring Ra, hawk-headed. Next are ranged seven cows, each one couchant before a table of offerings, and each having a menat attached to the neck; and a bull standing before a table of offerings. Behind them are four rudders; and on the extreme right are four triads of gods, each triad having a table of offerings bearing a libation vase and a lotus-flower (?).

Text: [CHAPTER CXLVIII.]. (i) Saith Osiris Ani, triumphant: "Homage to thee, O thou lord, thou lord of right and truth, the One, the lord of eternity and creator of everlastingness, I have come unto thee, O my lord Ra. I have made meat offerings unto the seven kine and unto their bull. O ye who give cakes and ale to the shining ones, grant ye to my soul to be with

you. May Osiris Ani, triumphant, be born upon your thighs; may he be like unto one Of you for ever and for ever; and may he become a glorious being in the beautiful Amenta."

[Address to the Rudders]: " Hail, thou beautiful Power, thou beautiful it rudder of the northern heaven."

" Hail, thou who goest round about heaven, thou pilot of the world, thou beautiful rudder of the western heaven."

" Hail, thou shining one, who livest in the temple wherein are the gods in visible forms, thou beautiful rudder of the eastern heaven."

" Hail, thou who dwellest in the temple of the bright-faced ones, thou it beautiful rudder of the southern heaven."

[Address to the four Triads]: " Hail, ye gods who are above the earth, ye pilots of the underworld."

" Hail, ye mother-gods who are above the earth, who are in the underworld, and who are in the House of Osiris."

" Hail, ye gods, ye pilots of Tasert, ye who are above the earth, ye pilots of the underworld."

" Hail, ye followers of Ra, who are in the train of Osiris."

Vignette: Ani standing before a table of offerings, with both hands raised in adoration. Behind him is his wife, wearing a lotus-flower and a cone upon her head, and holding a sistrum. and lotus-flower in her left hand.

Text: [CHAPTER CLXXXV. (?)] (I) A HYMN OF PRAISE TO OSIRIS THE DWELLER IN AMENTET, UN-NEFER WITHIN ABTU, Osiris Ani, triumphant, saith: Hail, O my lord, who dost traverse eternity, and whose existence endureth for ever. Hail, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Prince, the God of gods who live with Thee, I have come unto Thee Make thou for me a seat with those who are in the underworld, and who adore the images of thy ka and who are among those who [endure] for millions of millions of years … May no delay arise for me in Ta-mera. Grant thou that they all may come unto me, great as well as small. Mayest thou grant unto the ka of Osiris Ani [the power] to go into and to come forth from the underworld; and suffer him not to be driven back at the gates of the Tuat."

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