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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

17 King alone, _single_ among the gods:
    of many names, unknown is their number:
    rising in the eastern horizon setting in the western horizon:
    overthrowing his enemies:
    dawning on (his) children daily and every day:
    Thoth raises his eyes:
    he delights himself with his blessings:
    the gods rejoice in his goodness who exalts those _who are lowly_:
    Lord of the boat and the barge:
    they conduct thee through the firmament in peace.

    18 Thy servants rejoice:
    beholding the overthrow of the wicked:
    his limbs pierced with the _sword_
    fire consumes him:
    his soul and body are annihilated.

    19 Naka(558) saves _his feet_:
    the gods rejoice:
    the servants of the Sun are in peace:
    An is joyful:
    the enemies of Athom are overthrown and Aptu is in peace, An is
                joyful:
    the giver of life is pleased:
    at the overthrow of the enemies of her Lord:
    the gods of Kher-sa make salutations:
    they of the Adytum prostrate themselves.

    20 They behold the mighty one in his strength:
    the image of the gods of truth the Lord of Aptu;
    in thy name of Doer of justice:
    Lord of sacrifices, the Bull of offerings:
    in thy name of Amen the Bull of his mother:
    maker of men:
    causing all things which are to exist:
    in thy name of Athom Chepra:(559)
    the great Hawk making (each) body to rejoice:
    benignly making (each) breast to rejoice:
    type of creators high crowned:
    ... (Lord) of the wing:
    Uati(560) is on his forehead:
    the hearts of men seek him:
    when he appears to mortals:
    he rejoices the earth with his goings forth:
    Hail to thee Amen-Rā Lord of the thrones of the world:
    beloved of his city when he shines forth.(561)

    Finished well as it was found.(562)




Hymn To Ra-Harmachis


Translated by E. L. Lushington, LL.D., D.C.L.


The hymn to Amen-Rā-Harmachis (the Sun identified with the Supreme Deity),
of which a translation is here attempted, is found, with other
compositions of a similar nature, among the Berlin papyri. (No. 5,
published in Lepsius, “_Denkmäler_,” Abth. vi. Bd. 12, pp. 115-117.)

It probably belongs to the Ramesside period; the writing is careful and
for the most part very distinct; some _lacunæ_ are met with toward the
end, and in a few passages the characters baffle the present translator’s
skill in deciphering.

Citations from this hymn occur not unfrequently in the writings of eminent
Egyptian scholars, as Brugsch, Devéria, and others; compare especially
Chabas, “_Le Nom de Thèbes_,” p. 16, where the long antithesis of epithets
bestowed on Rā and his adversaries is described as “furnishing a page of
the Egyptian dictionary.”

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

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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

17 King alone, _single_ among the gods:
    of many names, unknown is their number:
    rising in the eastern horizon setting in the western horizon:
    overthrowing his enemies:
    dawning on (his) children daily and every day:
    Thoth raises his eyes:
    he delights himself with his blessings:
    the gods rejoice in his goodness who exalts those _who are lowly_:
    Lord of the boat and the barge:
    they conduct thee through the firmament in peace.

    18 Thy servants rejoice:
    beholding the overthrow of the wicked:
    his limbs pierced with the _sword_
    fire consumes him:
    his soul and body are annihilated.

    19 Naka(558) saves _his feet_:
    the gods rejoice:
    the servants of the Sun are in peace:
    An is joyful:
    the enemies of Athom are overthrown and Aptu is in peace, An is
                joyful:
    the giver of life is pleased:
    at the overthrow of the enemies of her Lord:
    the gods of Kher-sa make salutations:
    they of the Adytum prostrate themselves.

    20 They behold the mighty one in his strength:
    the image of the gods of truth the Lord of Aptu;
    in thy name of Doer of justice:
    Lord of sacrifices, the Bull of offerings:
    in thy name of Amen the Bull of his mother:
    maker of men:
    causing all things which are to exist:
    in thy name of Athom Chepra:(559)
    the great Hawk making (each) body to rejoice:
    benignly making (each) breast to rejoice:
    type of creators high crowned:
    ... (Lord) of the wing:
    Uati(560) is on his forehead:
    the hearts of men seek him:
    when he appears to mortals:
    he rejoices the earth with his goings forth:
    Hail to thee Amen-Rā Lord of the thrones of the world:
    beloved of his city when he shines forth.(561)

    Finished well as it was found.(562)




Hymn To Ra-Harmachis


Translated by E. L. Lushington, LL.D., D.C.L.


The hymn to Amen-Rā-Harmachis (the Sun identified with the Supreme Deity),
of which a translation is here attempted, is found, with other
compositions of a similar nature, among the Berlin papyri. (No. 5,
published in Lepsius, “_Denkmäler_,” Abth. vi. Bd. 12, pp. 115-117.)

It probably belongs to the Ramesside period; the writing is careful and
for the most part very distinct; some _lacunæ_ are met with toward the
end, and in a few passages the characters baffle the present translator’s
skill in deciphering.

Citations from this hymn occur not unfrequently in the writings of eminent
Egyptian scholars, as Brugsch, Devéria, and others; compare especially
Chabas, “_Le Nom de Thèbes_,” p. 16, where the long antithesis of epithets
bestowed on Rā and his adversaries is described as “furnishing a page of
the Egyptian dictionary.”

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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