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
5 Look at him, ye blessed, let him receive a perfect intelligence,
let him shine like the god of mysteries, deliver him from the gods
of the pillory who fasten to their posts. May they never bind
Osiris to their posts, may they never put him in the place of
destruction, for he is the descendant of Osiris who permits him to
receive the diadem in the empyrean.
6 He is sublime, the spirit of Rā in the Ament, his body is
blessed there, the spirits rejoice when they develop their forms
in the zones of the empyrean, before the soul of Rā, the
inhabitant of the empyrean, and Teb Temt who rests in his
covering. Hail, yes, hail! Hail spirit of Rā, hail, spirit of the
royal Osiris like Temt! Hail, royal Osiris who art Rā, and
reciprocally! O Temt who art Rā, and reciprocally, hail!
7 The royal Osiris is one of you. He gives birth to you, he gives
you your names, he makes you perfect; ha! he sends his body into
you; ha! he is your creator. Look at him, he shines like him who
proceeds from you; he honors his father, perfect, blessed,
blessing his mother; look at him, make his essence sublime and
make him like him who destroys his forms;(662) show the way to his
spirit, set him upon your pedestals, make him rest in his members,
show him his dwelling in the midst of the earth, open your doors
to him, unfasten the bolt.
8 O Rā, O Teb-Temt, guide the royal Osiris following the direction
of the spirits, following the course of the gods. The royal Osiris
is in his gateway (in presence of the) navigating gods; the royal
Osiris is the only one, the guardian of his doors, he who puts the
gods in their places. He is upon his pedestal in the empyrean, he
is the possessor in the midst of the possessors, he is at the
extremities of the empyrean, he is blessed in the infernal
regions. He rests in the Ament among the spirits who are in the
members of the Ament. The royal Osiris is Rā’s darling, he is the
mysterious phœnix, he enters in peace into the empyrean, he leaves
Nut in peace; the royal Osiris has his throne in heaven, he
traverses the horizons in Rā’s train, he is at peace in the
heavens, in Rā’s fields, his share is upon the horizon in the
fields of Aalu; he traverses the earth like Rā, he is wise like
Thoth, he walks at will, he hastens in his course, like Sahu with
the mysterious names, who becomes two divinities. The royal Osiris
becomes two divinities. What Rā produces, the royal Osiris
produces; he gives a spiritual existence to what he loves; he does
not give it to what he hates. The royal Osiris is the Chief of the
gods who make offerings to the spirits, he is powerful in his
course, he is the courageous being who strikes his enemies.
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