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
“Homage to thee, O Great God, thou Lord of Double Maāti, I have come to
thee, O my Lord, and I have brought myself hither that I may behold thy
beauties. I know thee, and I know thy name, and I know the name[s] of the
two and forty gods who exist with thee in this Hall of double Maāti, who
live as warders of sinners and who feed upon their blood on the day when
the lives of men are taken into account in the presence of the god
Un-nefer; in truth ‘Rekhti-merti-neb-Maāti’ (_i.e._, ‘twin-sisters with
two eyes, ladies of double Maāti’) is thy name. In truth I have come to
thee, and I have brought Maāt (_i.e._, right and truth) to thee, and I
have destroyed wickedness for thee. [I have not done evil to] mankind. I
have not oppressed the members of my family, I have not wrought evil in
the place of right and truth. I have had no knowledge of worthless men. I
have not wrought evil. I have not made to be the first [consideration] of
each day that excessive labor should be performed for me. [I have] not
brought forward my name for [exaltation] to honors. I have not ill-treated
servants. [I have not thought scorn of God.] I have not defrauded the
oppressed one of his property.(86) I have not done that which is an
abomination unto the gods. I have not caused harm to be done to the
servant by his chief. I have not caused pain. I have made no man to suffer
hunger. I have made no one to weep. I have done no murder. I have not
given the order for murder to be done for me. I have not inflicted pain
upon mankind. I have not defrauded the temples of their oblations. I have
not purloined the cakes of the gods. I have not carried off the cakes
offered to the _khu_s. I have not committed fornication. I have not
polluted myself [in the holy places of the god of my city],(87) nor
diminished from the bushel. I have neither added to nor filched away land.
I have not encroached upon the fields [of others]. I have not added to the
weights of the scales [to cheat the seller]. I have not misread the
pointer of the scales [to cheat the buyer]. I have not carried away the
milk from the mouths of children. I have not driven away the cattle which
were upon their pastures. I have not snared the feathered fowl of the
preserves of the gods. I have not caught fish [with bait made of] fish of
their kind. I have not turned back the water at the time [when it should
flow]. I have not cut a cutting in a canal of running water. I have not
extinguished a fire (or light) when it should burn. I have not violated
the times(88) [of offering] the chosen meat-offerings. I have not driven
off the cattle from the property of the gods. I have not repulsed God in
his manifestations. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. My purity
is the purity of that great _Bennu_ which is in the city of Suten-henen
(Heracleopolis), for, behold, I am the nose of the God of the winds, who
maketh all mankind to live on the day when the Eye (Utchat) of Rā is full
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