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In The Afterworld

Today’s death is before me like healing the sick

The going outside after a long illness

Today’s death is before me like the perfume of

Mirth. To the ends of the world where the city

Of Abydos lies Anubis succeeds in guiding the boat

Through the night gallery and the rapids of the river.

The serpent Apophis monstrous brings who hurl at

Themselves. Reptiles with five ravenous heads

Continuously emerge from earth and water. Terrible

Threats full of cries – lamentations of wondering shades

Headless human larvas and enemies of Osiris. To enter

The hall you must pass ten pylons open the gate for

Me be my guide. Nefershem speaks the great last words

I have given bread to all the starving-water to the

Thirsty-clothes to the naked-made him who had no boat

Across the river. I have buried the man who had no children

To enter the hall you must pass ten pylons.

Open the gate for me be my guide.