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
7 He reaches the gods of the pyramid; these latter praise him on
seeing the happy arrival of Osiris; they address him as Rā of the
horizon; praise be to Rā! cheers for the spirit of the horizon,
praises to the spirit of Rā! Praise his spirit that inhabits the
empyrean, invoke him who is in his disk, bear him to him who
created you, carry him unto the pyramid, since you are the gods
who accompany Rā Osiris. Here is Osiris, carry him into the hidden
sanctuary of Osiris, the lord of years(649) who is under the care
of the two Rehti. Carry him into the hidden dwelling where Osiris
resides, carry him into the funeral monument which is in the
Ament, the mysterious sanctuary of the god who is at rest; bear
him, open your arms to him, stretch out your hands to him, take
off your veils before him, for he is the great essence whom the
dead spirits do not know; it is Rā, the god of the two horizons,
and Osiris, the King of the Ament, who send him.
8 The royal Osiris is one of you, for his diadem is a vulture; his
face is a sparrow-hawk, his head is Rā; his eyes are the Rehti,
the two sisters; his nose is Horus of the empyrean; his mouth is
the King of the Ament; his lungs are Nun; his two hands are the
god Secheni;(650) his fingers are the gods who seize him; his body
is Chepra; his heart is Horus, the creator; his chest is the
goddess of life; his spleen is the god Fenti;(651) his lungs are
the goddess Heti; his stomach is Apu; his intestines, the god with
the mysterious names;(652) his back is the corpse-god; his elbows
are Makati; the nape of his neck, Horus Thoth; his lips Mehur; his
phallus is Tonen;(653) ...(654) the goddess of Cher; ...(655) the
two hidden gods; his sitting posture the two goddesses; his legs,
he who traverses the hidden places; his shin-bones are _uræus_.
His members are gods, he is throughout a god, no one of his
members is without a god, the gods are of his substance. The royal
Osiris is an intelligent essence, his members guide him, his flesh
opens the way to him, those who are born of him create him, they
rest when they have given birth to him. The royal Osiris is he who
gives them birth, it is he who begets them, it is he who makes
them exist; his birth is that of Rā in the Ament, Rā gives birth
to the royal Osiris, he causes his own birth.
_Section II_
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