The Coffin Texts

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Coffin text 1130 is a speech by the sun god Ra, who says:

Hail in peace! I repeat to you the good deeds which my own heart did for me from within the serpent-coil, in order to silence strife…
I made the four winds, that every man might breathe in his time…
I made the great inundation, that the humble might benefit by it like the great…
I made every man like his fellow; and I did not command that they do wrong.
It is their hearts which disobey what I have said…
I have created the gods from my sweat,
and the people from the tears of my eye.

Coffin text 1031 is spoken by the deceased, who says:

I shall sail rightly in my bark, I am lord of eternity in the crossing of the sky.
I am not afraid in my limbs, for Hu and Hike overthrow for me that evil being.
I shall see light-land, I shall dwell in it…

Make way for me, that I may see Nun and Amun!
For I am that Akh who passes by the guards…

I am equipped and effective in opening his portal!
As for any person who knows this spell,
he will be like Re in the eastern sky,
like Osiris in the netherworld.
He will go down to the circle of fire,
without the flame touching him ever!