Mar.6] PROCEEDINGS. [1894.determinative,or as implying invocation,with Qrtas its determinative?
Thecopyistsdifferedand someof them changed the word into
fTl O \\4T 1 so that thereshouldbe no ambiguity. But this
doesnot clear up the words which immediatelyfollow; hence Ba
has suppressed them,whilstothercopyistshavegiventhemselvesno
troubleas to the sense of what theywrote.CHAPTER LXXXII.
Chapterwherebyone assumeth the form of Ptah, eatethbread,
drinkethbeer,and sitteth in the midst of the great gods.I fly like the Hawk, I cackle like the Smen-goose, I alight on the
rightside of the Aat, on the feast of the Great One.
I execrate, I execrate : I eat it not. Dirtis what Ii execrate :
I eat it not. Thatwhich my Genius execrateth let it not enter
into me.
Let me therefore live upon that which is put before them; the
godsand the glorified ones. Let me live and enjoy the bread
and * Let me then eat them in the presence of the gods and
glorifiedones. Let me enjoy and eat them underthe foliage of the
datetreesof Hathor, my sovereign. Let the oblations be made, of
breadand beer in Tattu, and bendings of the head in Annu. Let
my vesture be girt upon me by Tait. Let me sit whereever it
pleasethme.
My head is that of Ra and I am summed up as Tmu : Four
timesthe arm's lengthof Ra : four times the width of the world. (1)
I have comeforthwiththe tongue of Ptah and the throat of
Hathorthat I may recordthe words of my father Tmuwithmy
mouth,whichdrawethto itself the Spouse of Seb, and the proclama
tion of whose lips inspireth fear.
I repeat the acclamations at my success on being declaredthe
heir of the Lord of Earth, Seb,fromwhomI issue.
Seb purifieth me, andgiveth me his Theophanies. (2) The
dwellersin Annu bow their headsto me. I am their Master. I am
theirBull. Morepowerfulam I than the Lord of Time; I am the
authorand the master of endless years.
- The wordseemsto have beenunintelligibleto the copyists, whodiffer
widelyfromeachotheras to its orthography.
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