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
And behold there had not been any born to the chief of Naharaina, except
one daughter. Behold, there had been built for her a house; its seventy
windows were seventy cubits from the ground. And the chief caused to be
brought all the sons of the chiefs of the land of Khalu, and said to them,
“He who reaches the window of my daughter, she shall be to him for a
wife.”
And many days after these things, as they were in their daily task, the
youth rode by the place where they were. They took the youth to their
house, they bathed him, they gave provender to his horses, they brought
all kinds of things for the youth, they perfumed him, they anointed his
feet, they gave him portions of their own food; and they spake to him,
“Whence comest thou, goodly youth?” He said to them, “I am son of an
officer of the land of Egypt; my mother is dead, and my father has taken
another wife. And when she bore children, she grew to hate me, and I have
come as a fugitive from before her.” And they embraced him, and kissed
him.
And after many days were passed, he said to the youths, “What is it that
ye do here?” And they said to him: “We spend our time in this: we climb
up, and he who shall reach the window of the daughter of the chief of
Naharaina, to him will be given her to wife.” He said to them, “If it
please you, let me behold the matter, that I may come to climb with you.”
They went to climb, as was their daily wont: and the youth stood afar off
to behold; and the face of the daughter of the chief of Naharaina was
turned to them. And another day the sons came to climb, and the youth came
to climb with the sons of the chiefs. He climbed, and he reached the
window of the daughter of the chief of Naharaina. She kissed him, she
embraced him in all his limbs.
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