From the Papyrus of Nekhtu-Amen

Making the sahu (spirit-body) to enter the tuat (other world) on the day of the funeral, when the following words are to be said:

HOMAGE to you, you who live in the Holy Hill (Set-Tchesert) of Amentet! the Osiris, the royal scribe, Nekhtu-Amen, whose word is true, knows you, he knows your name.

Deliver him from the worms which are in Ra-stau, which live on the bodies of men and women, and feed on their blood, for Osiris, the favoured servant of the god of his city, the royal scribe Nekhtu-Amen, knows you, and he knows your names.

Let the order for his protection be the first command of Osiris, the Lord to the Uttermost Limit, who keeps his body hidden.

May he give him release from the Terrible One who dwells at the bend of the River of Amentet, and may he decree the acts that will make him to rise up.

Let him pass on to him whose throne is placed within the darkness, who gives light in Ra-stau.

Lord of light, come and swallow up the worms which are in Amentet.

Let the great god who dwells in Tetu, and who is himself unseen, hear his prayers, and let those who cause afflictions hold him in fear as he comes forth with the sentence of their doom to the divine Block.

I the Osiris, the royal scribe, Nekhtu-Amen, come, bearing the decree of Neb-er-tcher, and I am the Horus who takes possession of his throne for him.

His father, the lord of all those who are in the boat of his Father Horus, has ascribed praise to him.

He comes bearing tidings . . .

Let him see the town of Anu.

Their chief shall stand on the earth before him, the scribes shall magnify him at the doors of their assemblies, and your shall swathe him with swathings in Anu.

He has led heaven captive, and he has seized the earth in his grasp.

Neither the heavens nor the earth can be taken away from him, for, behold, he is Ra, the firstborn of the gods.

His mother shall nurse him, and shall give him her breast on the horizon.

RUBRIC: The words of this chapter shall be said after [the deceased] is laid to rest in Amentet; by means of them the region Tenn-t shall be contented with her lord. And the Osiris, the royal scribe, Nekhtu-Amen, whose word is truth, shall come forth, and he shall embark in the boat of Ra, and [his] body on its bier shall be counted up, and he shall be established in the tuat (other world).

GIVING a mouth to the Osiris Ani, the scribe, and teller of the offerings which are made to all the gods, whose word is true, who says:

May my mouth be given to me that I may speak with it in the presence of the great God, the lord of the tuat (other world).I RISE up out of the egg in the hidden land.

Let not my hand and my arm be repulsed in the presence of the chiefs (Tchatchau) of any god.

I am Osiris, the lord of Ra-stau.

May I, the Osiris, the scribe Ani, whose word is true, have my portion with him who is on the top of the steps (Osiris).

According to the desire of my heart I have come forth from the Island of Nesersert, and I have extinguished the fire.