Instruction of Amenemope

Budge1924 English printed page 144

144 the teaching OF AMEN-EM-APT 42. Horus as the Truth-speaker, his name of Maat (his real name ?)^, 43. Boy begotten by a nobleman (or, magistrate) of Ap (Panopolis), 44. Son of the sistrum-bearer and directress of the singing of the god Shu* and the goddess Tefnut,® 45. Powerful of word (i.e.. Mistress) in the College of Horus, [called] Ta-Usrit. [With the name of the mother of Amen-em-apt the Introduction to the “ Teaching,” which con- tains the title and object of the work, and the genealogy and list of offices held by its author, comes to an end. The “ Teaching ” itself begins with the words ; — ] 46. He speaks the First Chapter. 47. I pray thee to lend me thine ears, hearken to the things that v/ill be said [by me]. 48. I pray thee to give thy mind (or, pay attention) to the difficult matters which will be unravelled [by me]. 49. The setting of them in thy heart will be advantageous [to thee]. 1 This line suggests that when Amen-em-apt wrote his Teaching the identity of Menu, or Menti, was absorbed in that of Horus. The following forms of the dual god are well known: arm, MenU'Honis of the lifted Menu-Horus, son of Isis, *T* avenger of his father, ^ He was an emanation of Tern, or Khepera, or Ra, and the personification of heat, light, and dryness, and the god of the space between earth and sky. ^ She was an emission of Tern, or Khepera, or Ra, and the personification of water and moisture of every kind.