Kheftiu Asar Butchiu Lyrics

Kheftiu Asar Butchiu lyrics

Kheftin Asar Butbiu

Enemies of Osiris Who Are To Be Burned

Let There Be Fetters on Your Arms

Let There Be Shackles on Your Necks

Let There Be Chains Upon You

Ye Shall Be Hacked to Pieces For

What Ye Have Done To Osiris

You Have Put His Mysteries Behind Your Backs

You Hath Dragged the Statue of the God

From The Secret Place

You Hath Desecrated The Hidden Things of the

Great One

You Are Doomed To Stand And Receive in

Your Faces

The Fire Which Serpent Khetti Is About To

Spit At You



Khetti

Great Serpent Who Lieth In Undulations

Before the Damned

Khetti

Open Thy Mouth Distend Thy Jaws

Belch Forth Thy Flames Against My

Fathers Enemies

Burn Up Their Bodies

Consume their Souls

By the Fire Which Issueth From Thy Mouth

And By The Flames Which Art In Thy Body



The Fire Which Is in the Serpent Khetti

Shall Come Forth

And Blaze Against The Enemies of Osiris

Whosoever Knoweth How to Use

These Words of Power

Against the Serpent Shall Be As One

Who Doth Not Enter Upon His Fiery Path



[In the Book of Gates, another text describing the Egyptian underworld, within
the Eighth Division of Night is the Gate of Set-Hra. The scenes depicted in
this chapter describe some of the tortures which are inflicted upon the
original enemies of Osiris. It is impossible for Osiris to slay all of his
enemies at once, even though they are in his power. While various batches of
them are awaiting their turn at the Block of Slaughter, they are kept tightly
fettered and bound. One of the forms of the torture depicted described the
"Kheftin Asar Butchiu," i.e., the enemies of Osiris who are to be
burned. Their arms are tied behind their backs in positions which cause intense
pain, and they are doomed to stand and receive in their faces the fire which the
serpent Khetti is about to spit at them, and then be hacked to pieaces and
burnt. Horus commands the serpent Khetti, saying "Open thy mouth! Distend
thy jaws and belch forth thy flames against my father's enemies! Consume their
souls by the fire which issueth from thy mouth and by the flames which art in
thy body."]