Cutting Off the Thigh: the Heart and Leg of the Bull

And the Kher heb shall say: “Pass on, and look upon the father.” Then shall the Sem take off the qena garment, and lay down the staff, and array himself in a panther’s skin.⁠a [And the Sem] shall say: “I have delivered this my Eye from his mouth; I have cut off the khepesh (i.e., leg, or thigh).” “You have cut off your Eye; your soul is in it.” [The female who represents Isis shall say: “Your lips are made for you, your mouth is cut open.” And the Sem shall bring two gazelle and a goose, with their heads cut off, and the Am Khent shall say:] “I have seized them for you, and I have brought to you your enemies; the gift of each is with you, on his hands and on his head. I have slain them for you, O Tem, and there shall be no [further] opposition to this god.” The slaughterer shall give the leg to the Kher heb and the heart to the Smer. Behold the heart in the hand of the Smer and the leg in the hand of the Kher heb, and they shall advance with them, and shall place [the leg and] the heart on the ground before the statue of the Osiris, king Men-Maat-Ra, giver of life! [And they shall say:] “I have presented to you the Leg [as] the Eye of Horus. I have brought to you the heart which was in him, and there shall not be opposition to this god, [that is to say], to the statue of the Osiris, king Men-Maat-Ra, living forever. I have brought to you a gazelle with his head cut off. I have brought to you a smen goose with his head cut off.”