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
4 The royal Osiris receives dominion over his enemies from the
great powers of the mysterious avenger, he who reveals the
mysterious empyrean, who dissipates the darkness, who chases away
the rain, he who hurries, and who makes the blessed servants of Rā
come forth. He(631) sees the body of the god when he assumes forms
with a mysterious name, when he sheds his rays in obscurity, and
when he hides the uncovered bodies; when he traverses the
mysterious spheres and when he gives eyes to their gods; they
themselves see him, and their spirits are blessed.
5 Hail, Rā! give eyes to the royal Osiris, give him divine
eyeballs, and may they guide the royal Osiris. Hail, Rā! give a
heart to the royal Osiris; he traverses the earth, he traverses
the world like Rā.
6 Thou takest care that what thou commandest to exist, exists;
thou rulest the royal Osiris like Chuti(632) and the King honors
thy spirit, he glorifies thee.
7 Thou commandest Osiris to be like Khuti, the brilliant triangle
which appears in the shining place.
8 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the mysterious spirit which
comes forth from the mysterious place.
9 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the blessed spirit which comes
forth from the blessed place.
10 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the destructive spirit which
comes forth from the place of destruction.
11 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the revealing spirit which
comes forth from the opening.
12 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the elevated spirit which
comes forth from the high place.
13 Thou commandest Osiris to be like the hidden spirit which comes
forth from the Ament.
14 Deliver him from the crocodiles which frighten the spirits,
like geese; let them not do their work upon the royal Osiris, in
the presence of the gods armed with swords; may Osiris never fall
into their furnaces, may their nets never entangle him; his spirit
flies away and soars into the heavens, his spirit returns and
enters into the empyrean, because the royal Osiris knows the
mysteries which are in the empyrean, the secret forms of Osiris,
that none of his servants know, in the secret of his hidden
dwelling. Hail! the royal Osiris knows thy form, great and
mysterious god.
15 Deliver the royal Osiris from the agile demons furnished with
legs, from the cruel gods who pluck out hearts and who throw them
into their furnaces. May they never do their work upon the royal
Osiris, may they never put him in their furnaces, because Osiris
is Rā; and reciprocally. His soul is that which is in the disk.
His body is in the middle of the hidden gods; they make Osiris
rule, Osiris makes them rule; he commands, and he rests as you
rest in the Ament.
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