Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Religion
Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
“Thy father Tem hath woven for thee a beautiful chaplet of victory [to be
placed] on [thy] living brow, O thou who lovest the gods, and thou shalt
live forever. Osiris-khent-Amentet(17) hath made thee to triumph over
thine enemies, and thy father Seb hath decreed for thee all his
inheritance. Come, therefore, O Horus, son of Isis, for thou, O son of
Osiris, sittest upon the throne of thy father Rā to overthrow thine
enemies, for he hath ordained for thee the two lands to their utmost
limits. Atem hath [also] ordained this, and the company of the gods hath
confirmed the splendid power of the victory of Horus the son of Isis and
the son of Osiris forever and forever. And Osiris Auf-ānkh shall be
victorious forever and ever. O Osiris-khent-Amentet, the whole of the
northern and southern parts of the heavens, and every god and every
goddess, who are in heaven and who are upon earth [will] the victory of
Horus, the son of Isis and the son of Osiris, over his enemies in the
presence of Osiris-khent-Amentet who will make Osiris Auf-ānkh,
victorious, to triumph over his enemies in the presence of
Osiris-khent-Amentet, Un-nefer, the son of Nut, on the day of making him
to triumph over Set and his fiends in the presence of the great sovereign
chiefs who are in Annu (Heliopolis); on the night of the battle and
overthrow of the Seba-fiend in the presence of the great sovereign princes
who are in Abtu; on the night of making Osiris to triumph over his enemies
make thou Osiris Auf-ānkh, triumphant, to triumph over his enemies in the
presence of the great sovereign princes, who are in the horizon of
Amentet; on the day of the festival of Haker in the presence of the great
sovereign princes who are in Tattu; on the night of the setting up of the
Tet in Tattu in the presence of the great sovereign princes who are in the
ways of the damned; on the night of the judgment of those who shall be
annihilated in the presence of the great sovereign princes who are in
Sekhem (Letopolis); on the night of the ‘things of the altars in Sekhem’
in the presence of the great sovereign princes who are in Pe and Tepu; on
the night of the stablishing of the inheriting by Horus of the things of
his father Osiris in the presence of the great sovereign princes who are
at the great festival of the ploughing and turning up of the earth in
Tattu, or (as others say), [in] Abtu; on the night of the weighing of
words,” or (as others say), “weighing of locks in the presence of the
great sovereign princes who are in An-rut-f on its place; on the night
when Horus receiveth the birth-chamber of the gods in the presence of the
great sovereign princes who are in the lands of Rekhti(?); on the night
when Isis lieth down to watch [and] to make lamentation for her brother in
the presence of the great sovereign princes who are in Re-stau; on the
night of making Osiris to triumph over all his enemies.”
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