Chapter XL

C1hapter whereby the Eater of the Ass is kept back.

2Back, serpent Haiu, whom Osiris execrateth. May Thoth cut off thy head, and may there accrue to me whatsoever property proceedeth from thee [according to] what was decreed against thee by the Company of the gods for the accomplishment of thy slaughter.

3Back, thou whom Osiris execrateth, from the Neshemet galley, which saileth towards the south with favourable breeze.

4Pure are ye, all ye gods who overthrow the enemy of Osiris.

5The gods upon the larboard utter loud acclamation.

6Back, thou Eater of the Ass, whom the god Chas, who is in the Tuat, execrateth.

7Know me! (Repeated four times).

8“Who art thou?”

9I am....

10Down upon thy face! thou who art eating at my sanctuary.

11I am the Season, which cometh at its own will.

12“Come not against me; thou who comest without being called, and who art unknown.”

13I am the master of thine utterance, and the check upon thy pride.

14O Ha-as, whose horns Horus doth cut: by my children, the cycle of gods in Pu and Tepit, thou art severed from thy fold and thy fold is severed from thee.

15And he who cutteth thee off cometh forth as the Eye of Horus; thou art kept back and assailed, and stopped by the breath of my speech.

16O thou god who devourest all wrong, and carriest off with violence; there is no wrong in me, my tablets are free from wrong. Let me not suffer violence before the Divine Circle; let not disaster be hurled upon me.

17I am he who giveth or taketh according to thy behest.

18Let not N be seized, let him not be devoured.

19He is Possessor of Life, and Sovereign Lord on the Horizon.