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Mistress of All Who dwells in her place Who God enobled wafts the god aloft.
She who protects life Much beloved She whose name has The Bull, husband of
The particoloured of red hair power in her craft. the cows.
This detail of the astronomical ceiling in the outer
hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera.
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Spell for making provision for a spirit in the God's Domain. THE NAMES OF THE FOUR STEERING-OARS OF THE SKY:
Hail to you, You who shine in your disk, a living soul who goes O Good Power, the good steering-oar of the northern sky;
up from the horizon! O Wanderer who guides the Two Lands, good steering oar of
I know you and I know your name; I know the names of the the western sky;
seven cows and their bull who give bread and beer, who are O Shining One who dwells in the Mansion of Images, good
beneficial to souls and who provide daily portions; may you steering-oar of the eastern sky;
give bread and beer and make provision for me, so that I may O Preeminent who dwells in the Mansion of the Red Ones,
serve you, and may I come into being under your hinder-parts. good steering-oar of the southern sky;
THE NAMES OF THE CATTLE ARE: May you grant bread and beer, offerings and provisions which
Mansion of Kas, Mistress of All. are beneficial to my spirit, may you grant me life, prosperity,
Silent One who dwells in her place. health, joy, and long duration on earth; may you grant to me sk
She of Chemmis whom the god ennobled. and earth and what is beneficial in Heliopolis and the Duat, for
The much Beloved, red of hair. know them all; may you do the like for me.
She who protects in life, the particolored.
She whose name has power in her craft.
Storm in the sky which wafts the god aloft.
The Bull, husband of the cows.
May you grant bread and beer, offerings and provisions which
shall provide for my spirit, for I am a worthy spirit who is in the
God's Domain.
O fathers of the gods and mothers of the gods who are over sky
and earth and who are in the God's Domain, save me from all
kinds of harm and injury, from the trap with painful knives and
from all things bad and harmful which may be said or done
against me by men, gods, spirits, of
the dead, by day, by night, in the monthly festival, in the half-
monthly festival, in the year, or in what appertains to it.
To be spoken by a man, when Re manifests himself, over these
gods depicted in paint on a writing-board. There shall be given
to them offerings and provisions before them, consisting
of bread, beer, meat, poultry, and incense.
The invocation-offering for this spirit shall be made to them in
the presence of Re; it means that this soul will have provision in
the God's Domain; it means that a man will be saved from
anything evil. Do nothing on behalf of anyone except your own
self, for it is the Book of Wennefer. As for him for whom this is
done, Re will be his helmsman and his protection, and none of
his enemies will know him in the God's Domain, in the sky, on
earth, or in any place where he may walk; it means that this
spirit will be provisioned in very deed. A true matter.
Dd mdw in Wsir Any mAa
xrw said by Osiris Ani justified
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prospective form
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