Chapter XII Chapter for Entering and for Coming Forth Out of the Netherworld
Salutation to thee, O Râ, who guardest the secrets of the gates(1) over this domain of Seb, and this Balance with which Râ raiseth up Maât (2) daily:
Here am I, who cleave open(3) the earth, grant that I may come and acquire advance in age.(4)
Notes
This chapter, like the next, occurs only in Pa among the older MSS. It comes twice in the Turin copy, being repeated as Chapter 120.
1. So Pa; the Turin copy has ‘the Tuat.’
2. In many places it is important to treat Maât as a proper name.
3. ⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂, a word not confined to agricultural operations. See note 20, p. 8.
4. As the sun, who is represented as an infant at dawn and as an aged man at sunset.