Text : (e A HYMN OF PRAISE TO RA WHEN HE RISETH IN THE (2) EASTERN PART OF HEAVEN . Behold Osiris, Hu-nefer, (3) victorious, who saith :-
"Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest (4) and Temu when thou settest . Thou risest, thou risest, thou shinest, thou shinest, (5) thou who art crowned king of the gods . Thou art the lord of heaven, [thou art] the lord of earth ; [thou art] the creator of those who dwell (6) in the heights and of those who dwell in the depths . 2 [Thou art] the God One who came into being (7) in the beginning of time . Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion man, (8) thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form Hapi (i . e ., the Nile, thou didst create the watery abyss, (9) and thou dost give life unto all that therein is . Thou hast knit together the mountains, thou hast made (10) mankind and the beasts of the field to come into being, thou hast made the heavens and the earth . Worshipped be thou whom the goddess Maat embraceth at morn and at eve . Thou dolt travel across the sky with heart swelling with joy ; the Lake of Testes(11) (t e becometh contented thereat . The serpent-fiend NA bath fallen and his two arms are cut off. The Sektet boat receiveth fair winds, and the heart of him that is in the shrine thereof rejoiceth . Thou "art crowned (12) Prince of heaven, thou art the One dowered [with all sovereignty] who comest forth from the sky . Ra is victorious! O thou divine youth, thou heir of everlastingness, thou self-begotten one, O thou who didst give thyself birth! O One (13), mighty [one], of myriad forms and aspects, king of the world, Prince of Annu (Heliopolis), lord of eternity and ruler of everlastingness,i the company of the gods rejoice when thou risest and when thou sailest (14) across the sky, O thou who art exalted in the Sektet boat ."
"Homage to thee, O Amen-Rd, who dost rest upon Maat, 2 and who passest over the heaven, every face seeth thee. Thou dost wax great (15) as thy Majesty doth advance, and thy rays are upon all faces . Thou art unknown and no tongue is worthy ( ) to declare thy likeness ; only thou thyself [canst do this] . Thou art One, even as is he (16) that bringeth the tens basket. Men praise thee in thy name [Ra], and they swear by thee, for thou art lord over them. Thou hearest with thine ears and thou seest with thine eyes. (17) Millions of years have gone over the world ; I cannot tell the number of those through which thou hast passed . Thy heart hath decreed a day of happiness in thy name of `Traveller' . Thou dost pass over (18) and dost travel through untold spaces [requiring] millions and hundreds of thousands of years [to pass over] ; thou passest through them in peace, and thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss to the place which thou lovest ; this thou doest in one (19) little moment of time, and then thou dost sink down and dost make an end of the hours ."
Behold Osiris, the governor of the palace of the lord of the two lands (i . e ., Seti I), Hu-nefer, victorious, saith : (20) "Hail, my lord, thou who passest through eternity, whose being is everlasting . Hail, thou Disk, lord of beams of light, thou risest and thou makest all mankind to live . Grant thou that I may behold thee at dawn each day ."
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"Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest (4) and Temu when thou settest . Thou risest, thou risest, thou shinest, thou shinest, (5) thou who art crowned king of the gods . Thou art the lord of heaven, [thou art] the lord of earth ; [thou art] the creator of those who dwell (6) in the heights and of those who dwell in the depths . 2 [Thou art] the God One who came into being (7) in the beginning of time . Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion man, (8) thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky, thou didst form Hapi (i . e ., the Nile, thou didst create the watery abyss, (9) and thou dost give life unto all that therein is . Thou hast knit together the mountains, thou hast made (10) mankind and the beasts of the field to come into being, thou hast made the heavens and the earth . Worshipped be thou whom the goddess Maat embraceth at morn and at eve . Thou dolt travel across the sky with heart swelling with joy ; the Lake of Testes(11) (t e becometh contented thereat . The serpent-fiend NA bath fallen and his two arms are cut off. The Sektet boat receiveth fair winds, and the heart of him that is in the shrine thereof rejoiceth . Thou "art crowned (12) Prince of heaven, thou art the One dowered [with all sovereignty] who comest forth from the sky . Ra is victorious! O thou divine youth, thou heir of everlastingness, thou self-begotten one, O thou who didst give thyself birth! O One (13), mighty [one], of myriad forms and aspects, king of the world, Prince of Annu (Heliopolis), lord of eternity and ruler of everlastingness,i the company of the gods rejoice when thou risest and when thou sailest (14) across the sky, O thou who art exalted in the Sektet boat ."
"Homage to thee, O Amen-Rd, who dost rest upon Maat, 2 and who passest over the heaven, every face seeth thee. Thou dost wax great (15) as thy Majesty doth advance, and thy rays are upon all faces . Thou art unknown and no tongue is worthy ( ) to declare thy likeness ; only thou thyself [canst do this] . Thou art One, even as is he (16) that bringeth the tens basket. Men praise thee in thy name [Ra], and they swear by thee, for thou art lord over them. Thou hearest with thine ears and thou seest with thine eyes. (17) Millions of years have gone over the world ; I cannot tell the number of those through which thou hast passed . Thy heart hath decreed a day of happiness in thy name of `Traveller' . Thou dost pass over (18) and dost travel through untold spaces [requiring] millions and hundreds of thousands of years [to pass over] ; thou passest through them in peace, and thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss to the place which thou lovest ; this thou doest in one (19) little moment of time, and then thou dost sink down and dost make an end of the hours ."
Behold Osiris, the governor of the palace of the lord of the two lands (i . e ., Seti I), Hu-nefer, victorious, saith : (20) "Hail, my lord, thou who passest through eternity, whose being is everlasting . Hail, thou Disk, lord of beams of light, thou risest and thou makest all mankind to live . Grant thou that I may behold thee at dawn each day ."
The SourceThe Book of the
Dead, the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
Translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit
London, 1898.
Translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit
London, 1898.
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