Saturday, September 22, 2007

THE DEATH OF THE KING AND HIS ARRIVAL IN HEAVEN, UTTERANCE 659.

THE DEATH OF THE KING AND HIS ARRIVAL IN HEAVEN, UTTERANCE 659.
Utterance 659.
1860a. To say: He is assembled: This thy going;
1860b. He is assembled: These thy goings,
1860c. are the goings of Horus in search of his father, Osiris.
1861a. His messengers go; his runners hasten,
1861b. his envoys rush on.
1862a. Hasten to Rē‘; say to Rē, to him who lifts up his arm in the East,
1862b. that he is coming as a god, that N. stands in the double ’itr.t-palace of the horizon.
1863a. Thou hearest the words of Rē‘, as a god, as Horus mśti:
1863b. "I am thy brother, like Sopdu."
1864a. Behold, he comes; behold, he comes;
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1864b. behold, thy brother comes; behold, Mḫnti-n-’irti comes.
1865a. Thou recognizest him not, though thou spendest the night in his arms--
1865b. thy putrefaction being avoided-
1865c. like thy calf, like thy herdsman.
1866a. Thou hast taken these thy white teeth of this mḥn;
1866b. they go around like an arrow, in their name of "Arrow;"
1867a. thy leg of beef is in the nome of Abydos, thy (lit. his) piece of meat is in the land of Nubia;
1867b. thou hast descended like the jackal of the South, like Anubis who is over (i.e. protects) the (southern) ’itr.t-palace;
1868a. thou standest before the Rd-wr-lake,
1868b. like Geb, at the head of his Ennead.
1869a. Thou hast thy heart; thou hast thy ka, N.;
1869b. thou furnishest thy house, N.; thou fastenest thy door, N.

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