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
16 The soul of Rā shines in his shape, his body rests amid the
invocations which are addressed to him; he enters into the
interior of his white disk, he lights the empyrean with his rays,
he creates it, he makes the souls remain in their bodies, they
praise him from the height of their pedestal. He receives the
acclamations of all the gods who open the doors, the hidden
essences who prepare the way for Rā’s soul, and who allow the King
of souls access to the fields. He traverses his disk himself; he
calls (to life) the body of Kat;(633) he places the gods of the
stars upon their legs; these latter make the god An(634) come at
their hours; the two sisters join themselves to him, they decorate
his head, as a spirit worthy of adornment.
17 O, Rā, place the royal Osiris in thy train; he is the divine
key which opens his haunts, he knows admirable means of obtaining
the great victory over his enemies; Osiris is powerful through thy
two eyes; walking god, the course of Osiris is thy course. Rā, the
journeys of Osiris are thy journeys, Osiris makes thee rule over
thy enemies, thou makest Osiris rule over his enemies, by means of
the great splendor which is the splendor of Rā in the empyrean,
they cry to him: Bull of the country of the dead, thou art Rā, thy
body rests in peace, thou art blessed in thy mysteries.
CHAPTER III
1 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Highly glorious Teb Temt.
2 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Thou makest thy soul young again
and thou givest birth to thy body.
3 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Lead him into the holy dwelling.
4 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Guide him on the good ways.
5 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Guide him on the roads of Nun.
6 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Guide him on the roads of Nut.
7 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He restores the body of Osiris.
8 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He places the corpse upon its
foundation, in its place that no one knows.
9 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He calls his body Osiris.
10 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He sees him who is in the
sarcophagus.
11 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. The rays of Aten(635) are upon
his person.
12 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He has taken the good ways.
13 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He worships thy soul upon the
horizon.
14 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. Thou speakest to him as to the
god who is upon the ground.
15 O, Rā, come to the King! truly. He is one of thy Nine Gods.
CHAPTER IV
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