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This chapter is among the Formulae
for assuming the shape of a divine being animal, or bird. The following version
is from that found in Papyrus Cairo 2512, an Eighteenth Dynasty manuscript.
r n irt xprw m bnw
pA.n.i m pAwty xpr.n.i m xpri
rwd.i m rwdw StAn.i m Stw
ink dqA n nTrw nbw
ink sf pn sdw arwt psdt ipn
xprw imnty
sHD Hr m-drt mtr.f r stX
DHwty imywt.sn m wpwt.s twy
xnty xm Hna bAw iwnw
mw nw mw imywt.sn
ii.n.i m hrw xa.kwi m nTrw
ink xnsw dndn nbw
Formula for taking the form
of the benu-bird
I have flown up as the primeval
one, and become Khepri,
I am grown as a plant, I am
sheltered as a turtle
I am the fruit for all the
gods
Mine is this yesterday of the
tails of cobras, that Ennead, beings of the West
Whom Horus has illumined by
his hand, Who witnesses against Seth
The Thoth among them in this
their mission
Foremost of Khem with the powers
of Iunu
Water of the water between
them
I am come by day, arisen from
the gods
I am Khons who fights the masters
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