Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 337

Appendix 323 thou announcest decrees to the gods, thou placest a Spirit in his Spirit, thou takest thy course and thou sailest over thy lake as doth Ra over the domains of heaven. Pepi, thou art raised up, pass thou into thy Spirit. 377. Then Pepi cometh forth into heaven among the o-ods who are in heaven. He standeth then at the Great Uart, he heareth the words of the Henmemet beings. Ra is found in the domains of heaven by the double lake in Nut, whither the gods have journeyed and arrived. He {i.e., Ra) giveth thee his hand in the Lake Asken of the sky ; the gods come to his throne. Pure is the coffer of thy throne in the Boat of Ra, thou sailest over the upper regions, thou approachest the roads, thou sailest with the imperishable stars, thou steerest thy way with the stars that never rest. Thou receivest thy tribute in the Semketet Boat, thou becomest a Spirit of the Tuat. Thou livest sweet life, all the life of the horizon is in thee. 390. The two spurs of Horus and the two wings of Thoth make Pepi to sail without shipwreck. Give thou bread to this Pepi, give thou beer to this Pepi, of thy bread of eternity and of thy beer of everlastingness. Pepi is the keeper of the Two Obelisks which are on earth ; Pepi is the guardian of the Two Pillars which are in heaven. Pepi goeth to embrace the two doors which are in heaven before Ra, His flesh is under the libation (?) of the Firmament of Ra. The Land of the South is made pure before Ra, and he appeareth in his horizon. This Pepi is in the Field of Life, in the Birth- chamber of Ra in the Firmament. The goddest Qebhut,^ the daughter of Anpu, findeth this Pepi, and she goeth to meet him with the Four Nemset Vases. She refreshed the breast of the Great God on the day of his watch, and she refresheth the breast of this Pepi with life. She washeth this Pepi, she censeth this Pepi. This Pepi receiveth his place of offerings in the Granary of the Great God. This Pepi arrayeth himself with the imperishable stars, the place of Pepi is more advanced than that of Khent- Atert, and he taketh his seat with those who have been equipped with their characteristics (?). ■-JW-^ln