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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

11 The ONE maker of existences:
    (creator) of ... maker of beings:
    from whose eyes mankind proceeded:
    of whose mouth are the gods:
    maker of grass for the cattle (oxen, goats, asses, pigs, sheep):
    fruitful trees for men:
    causing the fish to live in the river:
    the birds to fill the air:
    giving breath to those in the egg:
    feeding the bird that flies:
    giving food to the bird that perches:
    to the creeping thing and the flying thing equally:
    providing food for the rats in their holes:
    feeding the flying _things_ in every tree.

    12 Hail to thee for all these things:
    the ONE alone with many hands:
    lying awake while all men lie (asleep):
    to seek out the good of his creatures:
    Amen sustainer of all things:
    Athom Horus of the horizon:(555)
    homage to thee in all their voices:
    salutation to thee for thy mercy unto us:
    protestations to thee who hast created us.

    13 Hail to thee say all creatures:
    salutation to thee from every land:
    to the height of heaven, to the breadth of the earth:
    to the depths of the sea:
    the gods adore Thy Majesty:
    the spirits thou hast created exalt (thee):
    rejoicing before the feet of their begetter:
    they cry out welcome to thee:
    father of the fathers of all the gods:
    who raises the heavens who fixes the earth.

    14 Maker of beings, Creator of existences:
    Sovereign of life, health, and strength, Chief of the gods:
    we worship thy spirit _who alone_ hast made us:
    we whom thou hast made (thank thee) that thou hast given us birth:
    we give to thee praises on account of thy mercy to us.

    15 Hail to thee Maker of all beings:
    Lord of truth father of the gods:
    Maker of men creator of beasts:
    Lord of grains:
    making food for the beast of the field:
    Amen the beautiful Bull:
    beloved in Aptu:(556)
    high crowned in the house of the obelisk:(557)
    twice turbaned in An:
    judge of combatants in the great hall:
    Chief of the great cycle of the gods:

    16 The ONE alone without peer:
    Chief in Aptu:
    King over his cycle of gods:
    living in truth forever:
    (Lord) of the horizon, Horus of the East:
    he who hath created the soil (with) silver and gold:
    the precious lapis lazuli at his pleasure:
    spices and incense various for the peoples:
    fresh odors for thy nostrils:
    benignly come to the nations:
    Amen-Rā Lord of the thrones of the earth:
    Chief in Aptu:
    the Sovereign _on his throne_.

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Religion

Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

Egyptian literature -- Translations into English

11 The ONE maker of existences:
    (creator) of ... maker of beings:
    from whose eyes mankind proceeded:
    of whose mouth are the gods:
    maker of grass for the cattle (oxen, goats, asses, pigs, sheep):
    fruitful trees for men:
    causing the fish to live in the river:
    the birds to fill the air:
    giving breath to those in the egg:
    feeding the bird that flies:
    giving food to the bird that perches:
    to the creeping thing and the flying thing equally:
    providing food for the rats in their holes:
    feeding the flying _things_ in every tree.

    12 Hail to thee for all these things:
    the ONE alone with many hands:
    lying awake while all men lie (asleep):
    to seek out the good of his creatures:
    Amen sustainer of all things:
    Athom Horus of the horizon:(555)
    homage to thee in all their voices:
    salutation to thee for thy mercy unto us:
    protestations to thee who hast created us.

    13 Hail to thee say all creatures:
    salutation to thee from every land:
    to the height of heaven, to the breadth of the earth:
    to the depths of the sea:
    the gods adore Thy Majesty:
    the spirits thou hast created exalt (thee):
    rejoicing before the feet of their begetter:
    they cry out welcome to thee:
    father of the fathers of all the gods:
    who raises the heavens who fixes the earth.

    14 Maker of beings, Creator of existences:
    Sovereign of life, health, and strength, Chief of the gods:
    we worship thy spirit _who alone_ hast made us:
    we whom thou hast made (thank thee) that thou hast given us birth:
    we give to thee praises on account of thy mercy to us.

    15 Hail to thee Maker of all beings:
    Lord of truth father of the gods:
    Maker of men creator of beasts:
    Lord of grains:
    making food for the beast of the field:
    Amen the beautiful Bull:
    beloved in Aptu:(556)
    high crowned in the house of the obelisk:(557)
    twice turbaned in An:
    judge of combatants in the great hall:
    Chief of the great cycle of the gods:

    16 The ONE alone without peer:
    Chief in Aptu:
    King over his cycle of gods:
    living in truth forever:
    (Lord) of the horizon, Horus of the East:
    he who hath created the soil (with) silver and gold:
    the precious lapis lazuli at his pleasure:
    spices and incense various for the peoples:
    fresh odors for thy nostrils:
    benignly come to the nations:
    Amen-Rā Lord of the thrones of the earth:
    Chief in Aptu:
    the Sovereign _on his throne_.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

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