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
“I am the god Her-ab-maat-f (_i.e._, ‘he that is within his eye’), and I
have come to give right and truth to Rā; I have made Suti to be at peace
with me by means of offerings made to the god Aker and to the Tesheru
deities, and by [making] reverence unto Seb.”
“[The following] words are to be recited in the _Sektet_ boat: [Hail,]
sceptre of Anubis, I have made the four _Khu_s who are in the train of the
lord of the universe to be at peace with me, and I am the lord of the
fields through their decree. I am the divine father Bāh (_i.e._, the god
of the water-flood), and I do away with the thirst of him that keepeth
ward over the Lakes. Behold ye me, then, O great gods of majesty who dwell
among the Souls of Annu, for I am lifted up over you. I am the god Menkh
(_i.e._, Gracious one) who dwelleth among you. Verily I have cleansed my
soul, O great god of majesty, set not before me the evil obstacles which
issue from thy mouth, and let not destruction come round about me, or upon
me. I have made myself clean in the Lake of making to be at peace, [and in
the Lake of] weighing in the balance, and I have bathed myself in
Netert-utchat, which is under the holy sycamore tree of heaven. Behold [I
am] bathed, [and I have] triumphed [over] all [mine enemies] straightway
who come forth and rise up against right and truth. I am right and true in
the earth. I, even I, have spoken(?) with my mouth [which is] the power of
the Lord, the Only one, Rā the mighty, who liveth upon right and truth.
Let not injury be inflicted upon me, [but let me be] clothed on the day of
those who go forward(?) to every [good] thing.”
Of Bringing A Boat Along In Heaven
[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 9).]
THE CHAPTER OF BRINGING ALONG A BOAT IN HEAVEN. The chancellor-in-chief,
triumphant, saith:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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