Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Religion
Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
“Behold, the god of One Face is with me. The god Sebek hath stood up
within his ground, and the goddess Neith hath stood up within her
plantation, O thou that returnest and withdrawest thyself, show thyself
upon earth and let thy will be done.”
“Behold, the god of One Face is with me. Hail, ye seven beings who make
decrees, who support the Scales on the night of the judgment of the
_Utchat_, who cut off heads, who hack necks in pieces, who take possession
of hearts by violence and rend the places where hearts are fixed, who make
slaughterings in the Lake of Fire, I know you and I know your names,
therefore know ye me even as I know your names. I come forth to you,
therefore come ye forth to me, for ye live in me and I would live in you.
Make ye me to be vigorous by means of that which is in your hands, that is
to say, by the rod of power which is in your hands. Decree ye for me life
by [your] speech year by year; give me multitudes of years over and above
my years of life, and multitudes of months over and above my months of
life, and multitudes of days over and above my days of life, and
multitudes of nights over and above my nights of life; and grant that I
may come forth and shine upon my statue; and [grant me] air for my nose,
and let my eyes have the power to see among those divine beings who dwell
in the horizon on the day when evil-doing and wrong are justly assessed.”
IF THIS CHAPTER BE RECITED FOR THE DECEASED HE SHALL BE STRONG UPON EARTH
BEFORE RA, AND HE SHALL HAVE A COMFORTABLE BURIAL (OR TOMB) WITH OSIRIS,
AND IT SHALL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO A MAN IN THE UNDERWORLD. SEPULCHRAL
BREAD SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO HIM, AND HE SHALL COME FORTH INTO THE PRESENCE
[OF RA] DAY BY DAY, AND EVERY DAY, REGULARLY, AND CONTINUALLY.(47)
Coming Forth By Day
[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (British Museum No. 9,900, sheet 3).]
THE CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH BY DAY AND OF OPENING UP A WAY THROUGH THE
AMMEHET. Behold the scribe Nebseni, triumphant, who saith:
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