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