Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 321

APPENDIX Translations from the Pyramid Texts of Pepi I, Mer-en-Ra, and Pepi II. Heaven is solid (or firm), the earth is strong. Horus cometh, Thoth riseth, and they raise up Osiris upon his side,^ and they make him to stand up among the gods of the Two Companies. Remember Set, keep in thy heart the word which Keb spake, and the threats (?) which the gods made to thee in the Temple of the Prince in Heliopolis, when thou hadst set Osiris down on the earth. Thou dost suppress Set, but dost not do these things to him (?). Thou hast the mastery there, thou art delivered, Horus hath made thee master. Thou dost suppress Set. The flesh of his body (?) maketh entreaty, his name becometh Aku-ta. Thou dost suppress Set. The flesh of his body journeyeth,^ his name becometh Sah (Orion), whose leg is long, and his stride extended, the President of the Land of the South. Osiris beareth thee up as Set bore him up [when] he heard the threats of the gods, which the Father-God spake. ^ Thine arm is to I sis, Osiris Pepi, [and] the palm of thy hand is to Nephthys, and thou goest forward between them. Heaven is to thee, the earth is to thee, Sekhet Aaru is to thee, the Aats (Domains) of Horus, the Aats of Set ; the cities are to thee, and Tem hath orathered together for thee the Nomes. Keb hath spoken concerning it. Thoth grindeth his knife, and sharpeneth [his] knife, and crusheth in heads, and cutteth open breasts, He crusheth in heads and cutteth ^ ^ zs n i^^, 1. 186. There is a play on the words seA I ft 3_lx' ^° travel, and sak (I^^Pa^*. Orion. '().^^.