English: Image from page 217 of "Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;" (1911)

Identifier: osirisegyptianre00budg Title: Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection; Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Subjects: Osiris (Egyptian deity) Eschatology, Egyptian Publisher: London, P. L. Warner New York, G. P. Putnam's sons Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: d themyrrh and unguents. It was foreseen that in the processof embalming, the head might be mislaid, and that thehead of one man might be joined to the body ofanother. To avoid this terrible possibility, the priests atthe time when decapitation of the dead was general drewup the following formula : * I am the Great One, son of the Great One, I am Fire, the son of Fire, to whom was given his head after it had been cut off. The head of Osiris was not taken away, let not the head of so-and-so be taken away from him. I have knit (or, arranged) myself together; I have made myself whole and complete ; I have renewed my youth ; I am Osiris, Lordof Eternity. This formula forms the XLIIIrd 1 Wiedemann, in de Morgan, Recherches, p. 207.2 Fouquet, Sur ies Squelettes dElAtnrah, in de Morgan, Originesp. 267. 170 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection Chapter of the Book of the Dead, and is found inpapyri of the XVIIIth dynasty, e.g., in the Papyrus ofNu, Sheet 5, which was written about 1500 B.C. At

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