A Hymn Of Praise To Ra When He Riseth Upon The
Horizon, And When He Setteth In The Land Of Life
Osiris the scribe Ani saith: Homage to thee, O Ra, when thou risest as Tem-Heru-Khuti. Thou
art to be adored. Thy beauties are before mine eyes, [thy] radiance is upon my body. Thou
goest forth to thy setting in the Sektet Boat with [fair] winds, and thy heart is glad; the heart of
the Matet Boat rejoiceth. Thou stridest over the heavens in peace, and all thy foes are cast
down; the stars which never rest sing hymns of praise unto thee, and the stars which are
imperishable glorify thee as thou sinkest to rest in the horizon of Manu, O thou who art
beautiful at morn and at eve, O thou lord who livest, and art established, O my Lord!
Homage to thee, O thou who art Ra when thou risest, and who art Tem when thou settest in
beauty. Thou risest and thou shinest on the back of thy mother [Nut], O thou who art
crowned the king of the gods! Nut welcometh thee, and payeth homage unto thee, and Maat,
the everlasting and never-changing goddess, embraceth thee at noon and at eve. Thou stridest
over the heavens, being glad at heart, and the Lake of Testes is content. The Sebau-fiend hath
fallen to the ground, his fore-legs and his hind-legs have been hacked off him, and the knife
hath severed the joints of his back. Ra hath a fair wind, and the Sektet Boat setteth out on its
journey, and saileth on until it cometh into port. The gods of the South, the gods of the North,
the gods of the West, and the gods of the East praise thee, O thou Divine Substance, from
whom all living things came into being. Thou didst send forth the word when the earth was
submerged with silence, O thou Only One, who didst dwell in heaven before ever the earth
and the mountains came into being. Hail, thou Runner, Lord, Only One, thou maker of the
things that are, thou hast fashioned the tongue of the Company of the Gods, thou hast
produced whatsoever cometh forth from the waters, thou springest up out of them above the
submerged land of the Lake of Horus. Let me breathe the air which cometh forth from thy
nostrils, and the north wind which cometh forth from thy mother Nut. Make thou my
Spirit-soul to be glorious, O Osiris, make thou my Heart-soul to be divine. Thou art
worshipped as thou settest, O Lord of the gods, thou art exalted by reason of thy wondrous
works. Shine thou with the rays of light upon my body day by day, upon me, Osiris the scribe,
the assessor of the divine offerings of all the gods, the overseer of the granary of the Lords of
Abydos, the real royal scribe who loveth thee, Ani, whose word is truth, in peace.
Praise be unto thee, O Osiris, the Lord of Eternity, Un-Nefer, Heru-Khuti (Harmakhis),
whose forms are manifold, whose attributes are majestic [Praise be unto thee], O thou who art
Ptah-Seker-Tem in Anu, thou Lord of the hidden shrine, thou Creator of the House of the KA
of Ptah (Het-ka-Ptah) and of the gods [therein], thou Guide of the Tuat, who art glorified
when thou settest in Nu (the Sky). Isis embraceth thee in peace, and she driveth away the
fiends from the entrances of thy paths. Thou turnest thy face towards Amentet, and thou
makest the earth to shine as with refined copper. Those who have lain down in death rise up
to see thee, they breathe the air, and they look upon thy face when the disk riseth on the
horizon. Their hearts are at peace since they behold thee, o thou who art Eternity and
Everlastingness.
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