When the statue had exhausted the store of the power which was in it, it was able to obtain a fresh supply from the Other World. The object of making passes before the statue of the dead, or his mummy, was to give a place in the fore-front of the company of the Khu, or “Spirits,” in the Other World. This is certain from a passage in the text of Pepi I., wherein it is said, “The passes by which he obtaineth the fluid of life having been made over him by [Rā] and Horus, he is at the head of the Khu” (l. 695).
The Second Ceremony.
The ceremony of the sprinkling of water having been completed, the second ceremony begins. The Sem priest, or one of his assistants, took in his hand a censer in which incense has been placed, and having set fire in it, and made the incense to burn, he walked with it four times round the statue or mummy, and censed it, whilst the Kher ḥeb recited the following four times:--
“Let him that advanceth advance with his Ka.
Horus advanceth with his Ka.
Set advanceth with his Ka.
Thoth advanceth with his Ka.
Sep advanceth with his Ka.
Osiris advanceth with his Ka.
Khenti-maati[1] advanceth with his Ka.
- ↑ Dümichen, "the dweller in the town of Sekhem (Letopolis)."
