_The Book_(1.) _for invoking the gods of the Bounds,_(2.) _which the
person reciteth when he approacheth them, that he may enter and see
the Strong one_(3.) _in the Great Abode of the Tuat._
Hail, ye gods of the Bounds, who are in Amenta.
Hail, ye Doorkeepers of the Tuat, who guard this Strong one, and who
bring the reports before Osiris; ye who protect them who worship you,
and who annihilate the adversaries of Rā: who give light and put away
your darkness: ye who see and extol your Great one, who live even as he
liveth, and invoke him who is in his Solar disk.
Guide me, and let the gates of Heaven, Earth, and the Tuat be opened to
me.
I am the Soul of Osiris and rest in him.
Let me pass through the Gateways, and let them raise acclamation when
they see me.
Let me enter as I will, and come forth at my pleasure, and make my way
without there being found any defect or any evil attaching to me.
NOTES.
The text which has been followed in the translation of this chapter is
that of the Royal Tombs of Rameses IV and Rameses VI, called by M.
Naville Chapter 127 A. The lost Busca papyrus, of which Lepsius had a
tracing, furnishes a different text, (127 B), and the text of the Turin
_Todtenbuch_ has been enlarged by means of numerous interpolations. M.
Naville has called attention to the close relationship between this
chapter and the second part of the “Solar Litany.”