The Chapter of Not Letting the Heart-case
of a Man
be Taken Away from Him in Khert-Neter
The Osiris Ani saith: Hail, ye
who steal and crush heart-cases [and who make the heart
of a man to go through its transformations according to
his deeds: let not what he hath done harm him before
you]. Homage to you, O ye Lords of Eternity, ye masters
of everlastingness, take ye not this heart of Osiris Ani
into your fingers, and this heart-case, and cause ye not
things of evil to spring up against it, because this
heart belongeth to the Osiris Ani, and this heart-case
belongeth to him of the great names (Thoth), the mighty
one, whose words are his members. He sendeth his heart to
rule his body, and his heart is renewed before the gods.
The heart of the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, is to
him; he hath gained the mastery over it. He hath not said
what he hath done. He hath obtained power over his own
members. His heart obeyeth him, he is the lord thereof,
it is in his body, and it shall never fall away
therefrom. I command thee to be obedient unto me in
Khert-Neter. I, the Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, in
peace; whose word is truth in the Beautiful Amentet, by
the Domain of Eternity.
Papyrus of Nu,
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He saith: Hail, thou Lion-god! I am Unb (the Blossom).
That which is held in abomination to me is the block of
slaughter of the god. Let not this my heart-case be
carried away from me by the Fighting Gods in Anu. Hail,
thou who dost wind bandages round Osiris, and who hast
seen Set. Hail, thou who returnest after smiting and
destroying him before the mighty ones!
This my heart weepeth over itself
before Osiris; it hath made supplication for me. I have
given unto him and I have dedicated unto him the thoughts
of the heart in the House of the god (Usekh-her), have
brought unto him sand at the entry to Khemenu. Let not
this my heart-case be carried away from me. I make you to
ascend his throne, to fetter heart-cases for him in
Sekhet-hetep, [to live] years of strength away from
things of all kinds which are abominations to him, to
carry off food from among the things which are thine, and
which are in thy grasp through thy strength. And this my
heart-case is devoted to the decrees of the god Tem, who
guideth me through the caverns of Suti, but let not this
my heart, which hath performed its desire before the
Tchatcha Chiefs who are in Khert-Neter, be given to him.
When they find the leg and the swathings they bury them.
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