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."]