The Literature of the Ancient EgyptiansBudge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Egyptian literature -- History and criticism; Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
47. O Rā, the worship that is paid to thee, the worship of every kind,
shall be paid [also] to Unas. Everything that is offered to thy body
shall be offered to the Double of Unas also, and everything that is
offered to his body shall be thine. (_Here offer the table of holy
offerings._)
61. O ye oils, ye oils, which are on the forehead of Horus, set ye
yourselves on the forehead of Unas, and make him to smell sweet through
you. (_Here offer oil of cedar of the finest quality._)
62. Make ye him to be a spirit-soul (_khu_) through possession of you,
and grant ye him to have the mastery over his body, let his eyes be
opened, and let all the spirit-souls see him, and let them hear his
name. Behold, Osiris Unas, the Eye of Horus hath been brought unto thee,
for it hath been seized for thee that it may be before thee. (_Here
offer the finest Thehenu oil._)
III. As specimens of the hymns in the Pyramid Texts may be quoted the
following: the first is a hymn to Nut, the Sky-goddess, and the second
is a hymn to Rā, the Sun-god.
[O] Nut, thou hast extended thyself over thy son the Osiris Pepi,
Thou hast snatched him out of the hand of Set; join him to thyself, Nut.
Thou comest, snatch thy son; behold, thou comest, form this great
one [like] unto thyself.
[O] Nut, cast thyself upon thy son the Osiris Pepi.
[O] Nut, cast thyself upon thy son the Osiris Pepi.
Form thou him, O Great Fashioner; this great one is among thy children.
Form thou him, O Great Fashioner; this great one is among thy children.
Keb [was to] Nut. Thou didst become a spirit.
Thou wast a mighty goddess in the womb of thy mother Tefnut
when thou wast not born.
Form thou Pepi with life and well-being; he shall not die.
Strong was thy heart,
Thou didst leap in the womb of thy mother in thy name of "Nut."
[O] perfect daughter, mighty one in thy mother, who art crowned
like a king of the North,
Make this Pepi a spirit-soul in thee, let him not die.
[O] Great Lady, who didst come into being in the sky, who art mighty.
Who dost make happy, and dost fill every place (or being), with thy
beauty,
The whole earth is under thee, thou hast taken possession of it.
Thou hast encompassed the earth, everything is in thy two hands,
Grant thou that this Pepi may be in thee like an imperishable star.
Thou hast associated with Keb in thy name of "Pet" (_i.e._ Sky).
Thou hast united the earth in every place.
[O] mistress over the earth, thou art above thy father Shu, thou hast
the mastery over him.
He hath loved thee so much that he setteth himself under thee in
everything.
Thou hast taken possession of every god for thyself with his boat (?).
Thou hast made them shine like lamps,
Assuredly they shall not cease from thee like the stars.
Let not this Pepi depart from thee in thy name of "Hert" (ll. 61-64).
The Hymn to the Sun-god is as follows:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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