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The Death Of The King And His Arrival In Heaven, Utterance 659
Ancient Egyptian trans. Samuel A. B. Mercer • c. c. 2400-2300 BCE
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1860 To say: He is assembled: This thy going; 1860 He is assembled: These thy goings, 1860 are the goings of Horus in search of his father, Osiris. 1861 His messengers go; his runners hasten, 1861 his envoys rush on. 1862 Hasten to R`; say to R, to him who lifts up his arm in the East, 1862 that he is coming as a god, that N. stands in the double 'itr.tpalace of the horizon. 1863 Thou hearest the words of R`, as a god, as Horus mti: 1863 "I am thy brother, like Sopdu." 1864 Behold, he comes; behold, he comes; 1864 behold, thy brother comes; behold, Mnti-n-'irti comes. 1865 Thou recognizest him not, though thou spendest the night in his arms- 1865 thy putrefaction being avoided 1865 like thy calf, like thy herdsman. 1866 Thou hast taken these thy white teeth of this mn; 1866 they go around like an arrow, in their name of "Arrow;" 1867 thy leg of beef is in the nome of Abydos, thy (lit. his) piece of meat is in the land of Nubia; 1867 thou hast descended like the jackal of the South, like Anubis who is over (i.e. protects) the (southern) 'itr.t-palace; 1868 thou standest before the Rd-wr-lake, 1868 like Geb, at the head of his Ennead. 1869 Thou hast thy heart; thou hast thy ka, N.; 1869 thou furnishest thy house, N.; thou fastenest thy door, N. 50. TEXTS OF MISCELLANEOUS CONTENTS,