The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen

The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen

By James P. Allen

Completely revised and updated

James P. Allen presents a translation of the oldest corpus of old Egyptian spiritual texts from the six royal pyramids of the 5th and 6th Dynasties (ca. 2350-2150 BCE). Allen s revisions bear in mind fresh advances within the figuring out of Egyptian grammar.

Features:

  • Sequential translations in accordance with all on hand assets, together with texts newly stumbled on within the final decade
  • Texts numbered in response to the main regularly occurring numbering method with new numbers from the most recent 2013 concordance
  • Translations mirror the basically atemporal verbal method of outdated Egyptian, which conveys the undying caliber that the textual content s authors understood the texts to have

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What he lives on, I live on; what he eats of, I eat of; what he drinks of, I drink of. A joint of roast meat, that is my offering. 34 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PYRAMID TEXTS THE RESURRECTION RITUAL31 (BURIAL CHAMBER AND PASSAGE, SOUTH SIDE) INVOCATION TO NEW LIFE 213 Ho, Unis! You have not gone away dead: you have gone away alive. 32 Your lower arms are of Atum, your upper arms of Atum, your belly of Atum, your back of Atum, your rear of Atum, your legs of Atum, your face of Anubis. Horus’s mounds serve you; Seth’s mounds serve you.

CENSING 25 Someone has gone with his ka: Horus has gone with his ka; Seth has gone with his ka; Thoth has gone with his ka; the god has gone with his ka; Osiris has gone with his ka; Eyes-Forward has gone with his ka: you too have gone with your ka. Ho, Unis! Your ka’s arm is before you. Ho, Unis! Your ka’s arm is after you. Ho, Unis! Your ka’s foot is before you. Ho, Unis! Your ka’s foot is after you. Osiris Unis, I have given you Horus’s eye: provide your face with it. Let the scent of Horus’s eye disseminate to you.

14 That which has come from your mouth has been turned against you yourself. 242 RECITATION. The fire has been extinguished, no lamp can be found in the house where the Ombite is. The biting snake is all over the house of the one he would bite, hiding in it. 243 RECITATION. Two œts-scepters, two œts-scepters, are for two strips of papyrus, are for two strips of papyrus,15 as trampled bread. Lion, go away! Whether you are here or whether you are there, servant, spit out! UNIS 21 THE OFFERING RITUAL (BURIAL CHAMBER AND PASSAGE, NORTH SIDE) LIBATION 23 Osiris, acquire for yourself all those who hate Unis and anyone who speaks bad of his name.

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