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
Naarerf(11) is glad [when] Rā setteth, the heart of Naarerf is glad when
Rā setteth.”
“Hail, O ye gods of the land of Amentet who make offerings and oblations
unto Rā-Tem, ascribe ye glory [unto him when] ye meet him. Grasp ye your
weapons and overthrow ye the fiend Seba on behalf of Rā, and repulse the
fiend Nebt on behalf of Osiris. The gods of the land of Amentet rejoice
and lay hold upon the cords of the _Sektet_ boat, and they come in peace;
the gods of the hidden place who dwell in Amentet triumph.”
“Hail, Thoth, who didst make Osiris to triumph over his enemies, make thou
Mut-hetep, victorious, to triumph over her enemies in the presence of the
great divine sovereign chiefs who live with Osiris, the lord of life. The
great god who dwelleth in his Disk cometh forth, that is, Horus the
avenger of his father Unnefer-Rā. Osiris setteth, and the _Khu_s who are
in the Tuat (underworld) say: Homage to thee, O thou who comest as Tem,
and who comest into being as the creator of the gods. Homage to thee, O
thou who comest as the holy Soul of souls, who dwellest in the horizon.
Homage to thee who art more glorious than [all] the gods and who
illuminest the Tuat with thine Eye. Homage to thee who sailest in thy
glory and who goest round about it in thy Disk.”
The following variant of the above hymn is translated from the text in the
Papyrus of Nekhtu-Amen (Naville, “Todtenbuch,” Bd. II. p. 23).
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE MYSTERY OF THE TUAT (UNDERWORLD) AND OF TRAVERSING
THE UNSEEN PLACES OF THE UNDERWORLD, of seeing the Disk when he setteth in
Amentet, [when] he is adored by the gods and by the _Khu_s of the Tuat
(underworld), and [when] the divine _Khu_ which dwelleth within Rā is made
perfect. He setteth his might before Rā, he setteth his power before Tem,
[he setteth his strength] before Khenti-Amentet, and he setteth his terror
before the company of the gods. The Osiris of the gods goeth as leader
through the Tuat (underworld), he crasheth through mountains, he bursteth
through rocks, he maketh glad (?) the heart of every _Khu_. This
composition shall be recited by the deceased when he cometh forth and when
he goeth in with the gods, among whom he findeth no opposition; then shall
he come forth by day in all the manifold and exceedingly numerous forms
which he may be pleased to take. [The Osiris ... saith:]
“A hymn of praise to Rā at eventide [when] he setteth as a living being in
Baakha.(12) The great god who dwelleth in his Disk riseth in his two
eyes(13) and all the _Khu_s of the underworld receive him in his horizon
of Amentet; they shout praises unto Heru-khuti (Harmachis) in his form of
Tem, and they sing hymns of joy to Rā when they have received him at the
head of his beautiful path of Amentet.”
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