The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

17. The speaker now assumes the persons of various priests in

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succession, the ⁂⁂ _āb_, the ⁂⁂⁂ _ḥen nutȧr_ (prophet), the ⁂⁂⁂ _sem_, and the ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ura ḫerp ḥem_;[7] and he describes himself as performing certain religious ceremonies. It must never be forgotten when reading these texts that the Egyptian priests had _divine titles_, and that their ceremonies were dramatic, and symbolical of the acts performed by the gods.