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
Dominion Over Elements
[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 16).]
THE CHAPTER OF SNUFFING THE AIR, AND OF HAVING DOMINION OVER THE WATERS IN
THE UNDERWORLD. Osiris Ani saith:
“Hail, thou sycamore tree of the goddess Nut! Grant thou to me of [the
water and of] the air which dwell in thee. I embrace the throne which is
in Unnu (Hermopolis), and I watch and guard the egg of Nekek-ur (_i.e._,
the Great Cackler). It groweth, I grow; it liveth, I live; it snuffeth the
air, I snuff the air, I the Osiris Ani, in triumph.”
Dominion Over Elements
[From Lepsius, “Todtenbuch,” Bl. 23.]
ANOTHER CHAPTER. Osiris Auf-ānkh, triumphant, saith:
“Let the gates of heaven be opened for me by the god [Thoth] and by Hāpi,
and let me pass through the doors of Ta-qebh(38) into the great heaven,”
or (as others say), “at the time,” [or (as others say)], “with the
strength(?) of Rā. Grant ye, [O Thoth and Hāpi,] that I may have power
over the water, even as Set had power over his enemies on the day when
there were storms and rain upon the earth. Let me have power over the
divine beings who have mighty arms in their shoulders, even as the god who
is apparelled in splendor and whose name is unknown had power over them;
and may I have power over the beings whose arms are mighty.”
Preservation Of The Soul
[From the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum No. 10,470, sheet 15).]
THE CHAPTER OF NOT LETTING THE SOUL OF A MAN BE TAKEN FROM HIM IN THE
UNDERWORLD. Osiris, the Scribe Ani, saith:
“I, even I, am he who came forth from the water-flood which I make to
overflow, and which becometh mighty as the river [Nile].”
Of Drinking Water
[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (British Museum No. 9,900, sheet 4).]
THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. The scribe Nebseni ...
saith:
“May be opened [to me] the mighty flood by Osiris, and may the abyss of
water be opened [to me] by Tehuti-Hāpi, the lord of the horizon, in my
name of ‘Opener.’ May there be granted [to me] mastery over the
water-courses as over the members of Set. I go forth into heaven. I am the
Lion-god Rā. I am the Bull. [I] have eaten the Thigh, and I have divided
the carcass. I have gone round about among the islands (or lakes) of
Sekhet-Aaru. Indefinite time, without beginning and without end, hath been
given to me; I inherit eternity, and everlastingness hath been bestowed
upon me.”
The last three chapters, with a single vignette, are grouped in one in the
Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 72); but the
order of them as there given is 61, 60, 62. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius,
op. cit., Bl. 23) the vignette of each is the same, _i.e._, the deceased
holding a sail in his left hand.
Of Drinking Water
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 7).]
THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER AND OF NOT BEING BURNT BY FIRE [IN THE
UNDERWORLD]. The overseer of the palace, the chancellor-in-chief, Nu,
triumphant, saith:
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