Spell 161 - For Breaking an Opening into the Sky

Spell for breaking an opening into the sky which Thoth made for Wennefer when he broke into the solar disc Re lives, the tortoise is dead, the corpse is interred and N's bones are reunited. Re lives, the tortoise is dead, and he who is in the sarcophagus and in the coffin is stretched out. The two remaining paragraphs continue the refrain 'Re lives, the tortoise is dead', but otherwise are intelligible. A 'rubric' in black follows: As for any noble dead for whom this ritual is performed over his coffin, there shall be opened for him four openings in the sky, one for the north wind - that is Osiris; another for south eind - that is Re; another for the west wind - that is Isis; another for the east wind - that is Nephthys. As for each one of these winds which is in its opening, its task is to enter into his nose. No outsider knows, for it is a secret which the common folk do not yet know; you shall not perform it over anyone, not your father or your son, except yourself alone. It is truly a secret, which no-one of the people should know.