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 have been purified in the Pool of the South, and I have rested in
the northern city which is in the Field of the Grasshoppers, wherein the
divine sailors of Rā bathe at the second hour of the night and at the
third hour of the day. And the hearts of the gods are gratified(?) after
they have passed through it, whether it be by night, or whether it be by
day, and they say unto me, ‘Let thyself come forward.’ And they say unto
me, ‘Who, then, art thou?’ And they say unto me, ‘What is thy name?’ ‘I am
he who is equipped under the flowers [and I am] the dweller in his
olive-tree,’ is my name. And they say unto me straightway, ‘Pass thou on’;
and I passed on by thy city to the north of the olive-tree. What, then,
didst thou see there? The leg and the thigh. What, then, didst thou say
unto them? Let me see rejoicings in those lands of the Tenkhu.(103) And
what did they give unto thee? A flame of fire and a tablet (or sceptre) of
crystal. What, then, didst thou do therewith? I buried them by the furrow
of Mānāat as ‘things for the night.’ What, then, didst thou find by the
furrow of Mānāat? A sceptre of flint, the name of which is ‘Giver of
winds.’ What, then, didst thou do to the flame of fire and the tablet (or
sceptre) of crystal after thou hadst buried them? I uttered words over
them in the furrow, [and I dug them out therefrom];(104) I extinguished
the fire, and I broke the tablet (or sceptre), and I created a pool of
water. ‘Come, then,’ [they say,] ‘and enter in through the door of this
Hall of double Maāti, for thou knowest us.’ ”
“ ‘We will not let thee enter in through us,’ say the bolts of the door,
‘unless thou tellest [us] our names;’ ‘Tongue [of the Balance] of the
place of right and truth’ is your name. ‘I will not let thee enter in by
me,’ saith the [right] lintel of the door, ‘unless thou tellest [me] my
name;’ ‘Balance of the support of right and truth’ is thy name. ‘I will
not let thee enter in by me,’ saith the [left] lintel of the door, ‘unless
thou tellest [me] my name;’ [‘Balance of] wine’ is thy name. ‘I will not
let thee pass over me,’ saith the threshold of this door, ‘unless thou
tellest [me] my name;’ ‘Ox of the god Seb’ is thy name. ‘I will not open
unto thee,’ saith the fastening of this door, ‘unless thou tellest [me] my
name;’ ‘Flesh of his mother’ is thy name. ‘I will not open unto thee,’
saith the socket of the fastening of the door, ‘unless thou tellest me my
name;’ ‘Living eye of the god Sebek, the lord of Bakhau,’ is thy name. ‘I
will not open unto thee [and I will not let thee enter in by me,’ saith
the guardian of the leaf of] this door, ‘unless thou tellest [me] my
name;’ ‘Elbow of the god Shu when he placeth himself to protect Osiris’ is
thy name. ‘We will not let thee enter in by us,’ say the posts of this
door, ‘unless thou tellest us our names;’ ‘Children of the uræi-goddesses’
is your name.(105) ‘Thou knowest us,’ [they say,] ‘pass on, therefore, by
us.’
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