Book of the Dead Chapter 105
Chapter 105 is an incantation for sustaining the dead individual with food for eternity.
There are no written sources
earlier than the New Kingdom
The version below comes from the Book of the Dead of Nu, on a papyrus now preserved in the British Museum (EA 10477: Lapp 1997, pl.19-20) - the letter N alone stands for the name of the individual, written out in full in the original manuscripts:
r n sHtp kA n N n.f m Xrt-nTr
mk wi ii.kwi xr.k
xa.kwi wsr.kwi bA.kwi sxm.kwi
Ts pwy Dw Dd.n.i
abw pwy Dw ir.n.i
n rdy n.i
Hr-ntt ink wAD pwy
m h[rw pwy]
[m nHm
nn ink is kA n xryt
n pr.Tw r xrw im [..]
Hryw ky Dd
Hail, my ka, my lifetime,
See I am come before you,
I am risen, powerful, ensouled, mighty.
I have brought you natron and incense
so that I may purify you with them,
so that I may purify your fluids with them.
That evil phrase I had spoken,
That evil impurity I had done,
and my ka flourishes like them, my ka is supplied like them.
may what is Right be as tall as the nose of Ra
on this day,
let not my head be removed and displaced there,
and there are no offerings at the voice there [for?]
the masters another version:
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