The amulet of the buckle

The amulet of the buckle

This amulet represents the buckle of the girdle of Isis, and is usually
made of carnelian, red jasper, red glass, and of other substances of a
red colour; it is sometimes made of gold, and of substances covered
with gold. It is always associated with the CLVIth Chapter of the Book of
the Dead, which is frequently inscribed upon it, and which reads:--

"The blood of Isis, and the strength of Isis, and the words of power of
Isis shall be mighty to act as powers to protect this great and divine
being, and to guard him from him that would do unto him anything that
he holdeth in abomination."

But before the buckle was attached to the neck of the deceased, where
the rubric ordered it to be placed, it had to be dipped in water in
which ankham flowers had been steeped; and when the words of the Chapter of
the Buckle given above had been recited over it, the amulet brought to
the deceased the protection of the blood of Isis, and of her words of
power. It will be remembered that she raised the dead body of Osiris by
means of her words of power, and there is a legend to the effect that
she smote the Sun-god Ra with severe sickness by the magical power which
she possessed. Another object of the buckle was to give the deceased
access to every place in the underworld, and to enable him to have "one
hand towards heaven, and one hand towards earth."

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