CT 6, Spells 493 & 495
“Spell 493
A.) Not to restrain a person’s soul from going out or coming in as he wishes in the realm of the dead. Shu has wept at what is hidden from him; O my soul, be far from the corpses which my father has slain. O Old One, prepare a path for me, may my soul be saved from the trappers who take away souls and constrain shades, who are put in the shambles of the Chaos-gods, who witness its arrival.
B.) Be far from this soul of mine, do not restrain it, for I am that Old One who is wept for in the place of the mourners, at the time of the waiters. I possess my soul, I procreate by means of it, for I am a man of Djedet, and what I say is done for me. My corpse will neither be wrested away nor constrained, for I am that corpse for which Atum wept and which Anubis buried. [My] soul, my body and my shade are at its side, for I am indeed the guard of the prisoners after the secret matters [mysteries] of the Coiled One.
C.) I will not be seized, nor will my corpse be constrained; the Eye has wept for me in the presence of the snakes. I have not my fiery blast, I have not attained my heat, 13 (yet) my foe has fallen to me and I have restrained his confederacy. I am an Old One, my soul is in Djedet and in Ninsu, I am not restrained by those who are on earth, who massacre the Old Ones, my protection is in the realm of the dead, and my soul and my body belong to it, and I am the guard of the prisoners after the great battle.
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Spell 495
I extend my arm in company with Shu, I am released in company with Wnwt (Wenut?). I have fled with the Sistrum-player, I have reached the horizon as a great falcon, I have got rid of my impediment in the horizon, I have saved myself from the slayers, the carvers strong of arms. Be far from this soul of mine, which is with Re daily. My soul belongs to my body, my shade is at my side, I am the guard of the prisoners after the secret affairs of the Coiled One.” ~ R.O. Faulkner, ECT 2, Westminster, 1977, pp. 134-35
I feel that these two spells are also important to share because they both mention Mehen [Mhn]-(The Coiled One) and the mysteries associated with him. Unfortunately, there is no hard evidence yet found (that I am aware of at the moment of this writing) that explains what these mysteries actually were. There is, however, a good deal of speculation among particular scholars of the recondite.
