Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
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Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
Then one went out and said unto the charioteer of the Foe in Joppa, “Thy
master is fallen; go, say to thy mistress, ‘A pleasant message! For Sutekh
has given Tahutia to us, with his wife and his children; behold the
beginning of their tribute,’ that she may comprehend the two hundred
sacks, which are full of men and cords and fetters.” So he went before
them to please the heart of his mistress, saying, “We have laid hands on
Tahutia.” Then the gates of the city were opened before the footmen: they
entered the city, they opened their burdens, they laid hands on them of
the city, both small and great, they put on them the cords and fetters
quickly; the power of Pharaoh seized upon that city. After he had rested
Tahutia sent a message to Egypt to the King Men-kheper-ra his lord,
saying: “Be pleased, for Amen thy good father has given to thee the Foe in
Joppa, together with all his people, likewise also his city. Send,
therefore, people to take them as captives that thou mayest fill the house
of thy father Amen Ra, king of the gods, with men-servants and
maid-servants, and that they may be overthrown beneath thy feet for ever
and ever.”
The Doomed Prince
There once was a king to whom no son was born; and his heart was grieved,
and he prayed for himself unto the gods around him for a child. They
decreed that one should be born to him. And his wife, after her time was
fulfilled, brought forth a son. Then came the Hathors to decree for him a
destiny; they said, “His death is to be by the crocodile, or by the
serpent, or by the dog.” Then the people who stood by heard this, and they
went to tell it to his Majesty. Then his Majesty’s heart sickened very
greatly. And his Majesty caused a house to be built upon the desert; it
was furnished with people and with all good things of the royal house,
that the child should not go abroad. And when the child was grown, he went
up upon the roof, and he saw a dog; it was following a man who was walking
on the road. He spoke to his page, who was with him, “What is this that
walks behind the man who is coming along the road?” He answered him, “This
is a dog.” The child said to him, “Let there be brought to me one like
it.” The page went to repeat it to his Majesty. And his Majesty said, “Let
there be brought to him a little pet dog, lest his heart be sad.” And
behold they brought to him the dog.
Then when the days increased after this, and when the child became grown
in all his limbs, he sent a message to his father saying, “Come, wherefore
am I kept here? Inasmuch as I am fated to three evil fates, let me follow
my desire. Let God do what is in his heart.” They agreed to all he said,
and gave him all sorts of arms, and also his dog to follow him, and they
took him to the east country, and said to him, “Behold, go thou whither
thou wilt.” His dog was with him, and he went northward, following his
heart in the desert, while he lived on all the best of the game of the
desert. He went to the chief of Naharaina.
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