Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter LXXX

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

It is I who complete the vesture of Nu, the Light which shineth before him, lighting up the darkness. I unite with the two brother-gods who are upon me through the mighty Words of Power of my mouth. I raise up the fallen one who cometh after me. I fall along with him in the vale of Abydos when I go to rest

I have seized upon Hu from the place in which I found him. And I have lifted off the darkness through my power. I have rescued the Eye from its eclipse against the coming of the Fifteenth day, and balanced Sutu in the mansions above, against the Great one who is with him

I have equipped Thoth [with light] in the house of the Moon

I seize upon the Crown. Maāt is upon me, and the Emerald and the Crystal of her months

This field of mine is of Azure in the festival thereof

I lighten up the darkness and overthrow the devouring monsters

Those who are in their own darkness worship me, and they rise up to me, covering their faces, who mourn and are prostrate: look ye therefore upon me

I am the Craftsman of Nu, but I come not up in order that you should hear of this

I am the Craftsman of Nu, who lighteneth the darkness, and I have come to dissipate the darkness, and that light should be