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
IF THIS COMPOSITION BE KNOWN [BY THE DECEASED] HE SHALL COME FORTH BY DAY,
AND HE SHALL BE IN A POSITION TO JOURNEY ABOUT OVER THE EARTH AMONG THE
LIVING. AND HE SHALL NEVER SUFFER DIMINUTION, NEVER, NEVER.
Coming Forth By Day
[From the Papyrus of Mes-em-neter (Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 81).]
ANOTHER CHAPTER.
“I am the Fire-god, the divine brother of the Fire-god, and [I am] Osiris
the brother of Isis. My divine son, together with his mother Isis, hath
avenged me on mine enemies. My enemies have wrought every [kind of] evil,
therefore their arms, and hands, and feet, have been fettered by reason of
their wickedness which they have wrought upon me. I am Osiris, the
first-born of the divine womb, the first-born of the gods, and the heir of
my father Osiris-Seb(?). I am Osiris, the lord of the heads that live,
mighty of breast and powerful of back, with a phallus which goeth to the
remotest limits [where] men and women [live]. I am Sah (Orion) who
travelleth over his domain and who journeyeth along before the stars of
heaven, [which is] the belly of my mother Nut; she conceived me through
her love, and she gave birth to me because it was her will so to do. I am
Anpu (Anubis) on the day of the god Sepa. I am the Bull at the head of the
meadow. I, even I, am Osiris who imprisoned his father together with his
mother on the day of making the great slaughter; now, [his] father is Seb,
and [his] mother is Nut. I am Horus, the first-born of Rā of the risings.
I am Anpu (Anubis) [on the day of] the god Sepa. I, even I, am the lord
Tem. I am Osiris. Hail, thou divine first-born, who dost enter and dost
speak before the divine Scribe and Doorkeeper of Osiris, grant that I may
come. I have become a _khu_, I have been judged, I have become a divine
being, I have come, and I have avenged mine own body. I have taken up my
seat by the divine birth-chamber of Osiris, and I have destroyed the
sickness and suffering which were there. I have become mighty, and I have
become a divine being by the side of the birth-chamber of Osiris, I am
brought forth with him, I renew my youth, I renew my youth, I take
possession of my two thighs which are in the place where is Osiris, and I
open the mouth of the gods therewith, I take my seat by his side, and
Thoth cometh forth, and [I am] strengthened in heart with thousands of
cakes upon the altars of my divine father, and with my beasts, and with my
cattle, and with my red feathered fowl, and with my oxen, and with my
geese, and with my ducks, for Horus my Chieftain, and with the offerings
which I make to Thoth, and with the sacrifices which I offer up to
An-heri-ertaitsa.”
Coming Forth By Day
[From the Papyrus of Mes-em-neter (Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 82).]
ANOTHER CHAPTER.
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