PDM/ XIV, 627-635
Date: late 2nd or early 3rd century
Findspot: Egypt
Current Location: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, AMS 65
This ancient Egyptian ritual instruction is preserved in the famous “London-Leiden-Magical Papyrus”, the most extensive Egyptian magical papyrus from the Roman period known to us today (for more information and many more images watch my video about this amazing ritual manual based on my own research: https://www.antikemagie.com/ancient-egyptian-magical-scroll-creation-rituals-encryptions/)
The title of this Egyptian ritual instruction is preserved. In Egyptian-Demotic it reads: Pa shen-hene en Usir.
Here is my translation of the ritual, following the translation by Griffith, Thompson, The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (1904), 135:
Hail to him, Osiris,
king of the Underworld,
lord of burial (or: embalming),
whose head is in This,
and his feet in Thebes,
he who gives answer(?) in Abydos,
whose glory is in Pashalom,
he who is under the nubs tree in Meroe,
who is on the mountain of Poranos,
who is on my house to eternity,
the house of Netbeou for ever,
he whose countenance is as the resemblance(?) of the face of a hawk of linen,
mighty one whose tail is the tail of a serpent,
whose back is the back of a crocodile (?),
whose hand is a man’s,
who is girded (?) with this girdle of bandage,
in whose hand is this wand of command.
Hail to him laho, Sabaho, Atonai, Mistemu, lauiu,
hail to him, Michael, Sabael,
hail to him, Anubis in the nome of the dogfaces,
he to whom this earth belongs,
who carries a wound (?) on one foot:
Hide the darkness in the midst,
bring in the light for me,
come in to me,
tell me the answer to that about which I am
inquiring here today.
Nine times, until the god comes and the light appears.
You must do it in the manner of the remainder as above
again; the boy’s face being to the East and your own
face to the West; you call down into his head.
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