Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter LXXVII

Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE

I set myself to view: I set myself to view as the Golden Hawk, which cometh out from its Egg; and I fly and I hover as a Hawk of four cubits across the back. My two wings are of the green gem of the South

I come forth from the cabin of the Sektit Bark and I raise myself up from the Eastern Hill

I stoop upon the Âtit Bark, that I may come and raise to me those who are in their circles, and who bow down before me

I display myself and gather myself together as the beautiful Golden Hawk with the head of a Heron, to listen to whose utterances Râ cometh every day, and I sit down in the midst of all the great gods of Heaven

The fields lie before me; the produce is before me; I eat of it, I wax radiant upon it, I am saturated with it to the satisfaction of my heart

Nepra hath given to me my throat, and I am in possession of all that pertaineth to my person