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Book of the Dead, pParis Louvre 3092 + Frgm. Montpellier (pNeferubenef)

English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

99A.88–99A.93

99A.88

Mꜣꜣ-ḥꜣ≡f srs ꜥqꜣn ḥnk m ꜥnḫ

Mahaf, wake Aqen, who is endowed with life!

99A.89

m =k jy.kw

See, I have come.

99A.90

jnm tr =k jj.y

Who are you, then, who comes?

99A.91

jnk ḥkꜣ

I am Heka.

99A.92

m mḥ.y

Are [you] complete?

99A.93

mḥ.kw

I am complete.

Translator's note. Mahaf ('He who sees behind him') and Aqen are the ferryman figures. Line 91: ḥkꜣ may be the god Heka, 'Magic', or 'a magician'.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pParis Louvre 3092 + Frgm. Montpellier (pNeferubenef)).