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Hymn To Pharaoh

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Author / Collector:
Epiphanius Wilson
Book:
Egyptian Book Of the Dead
Publisher:
The Colonial Press
Year:
1901
Country:
Generic
License:
Public Domain (copyright expired)
Editor's Notes:
n/a
Hymn To Pharaoh: royal praise, divine kingship, and earthly authority
Subject:

Hymn To Pharaoh

1 “Long live the King!(529)
2 This comes to inform the King
3 to the royal hall of the lover of truth,
4 the great heaven wherein the Sun is.
5 (Give) thy attention to me, thou Sun that risest
6 to enlighten the earth with this (his) goodness.
7 The solar orb of men chasing the darkness from Egypt.
8 Thou art as it were the image of thy father the Sun,
9 who rises in heaven. Thy beams penetrate the cavern.
10 No place is without thy goodness.
11 Thy sayings are the law of every land.
12 When thou reposest in thy palace,
13 thou hearest the words of all the lands.
14 Thou hast millions of ears.
15 Bright is thy eye above the stars of heaven,
16 able to gaze at the solar orb.
17 If anything be spoken by the mouth in the cavern,
18 it ascends into thy ears.
19 Whatsoever is done in secret, thy eye seeth it,
20 O Baenra Meriamen,(530) merciful Lord, creator of breath.”

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