The Text, Just Before, Concerned the Killing of Osiris
THE TEXT No.1 (1, 1-11) (G. IV, 1,308) (G. V, 530) : The beginning of an utterance to apply a remedy to any part of the body 1 : I have come from Heliopolis with the great (wr'w) ones of the Great House (/;-t '5·t) a, the Lords of Protection, the Rulers of Eternity. I have also (n/:zm n) 2 come from Sals with the Mother 3 of the gods. They have given me their protection. I have 4 utterances that the Lord of the Universe has composed to eliminate the doings b of a god, a goddess, a dead man, a dead woman, etc. c that are in this my head, in these my napes (vertebrae) 5, in these my shoulders 6, in this my flesh 7, in these my members, (and) to punish 8 the Slanderer 9, the Chief of those who let disturbances (bnn) d enter into this my flesh and bjbj 10 into these my members 11, as something that entered into this my flesh, this my head, these my shoulders, this my body, these my limbs 11. I belong to Re. He said 12: I am the one who will protect 13 him (the patient) against his enemies. His 14 guide is Thot e; he 15 causes books to speak; he composed compilations of writings 16; he imparts useful knowledge (rb) f to the learned 17, to the physicians his followers, in order to free those whom a god 18 wishes him (the physician) to keep alive. I am the one whom God 18 wishes to keep alive.
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