Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 340

326 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection of heaven, travelled on and transported Ra in their boat through the two defiles (?) so that he might journey to his horizon, so shall they transport this Pepi through the defiles (?) so that he may journey to the horizon with Ra, and give thanks to Horus of the Tuat, the Divine Hawk, yellowish-green in colour, who produced the heavens. 420. Homage to thee with thy Four Faces which are at rest and gaze at what is in the Land of Kenset, and change the storms into calms (?). Give thou to this Pepi thy two fingers which thou didst give to Nefert, the daughter of the Great God, when she was the messenger from heaven to earth, when the gods made their appear- ance in heaven. O Soul-god, who risest at the head of thy Boat of seven hundred and seventy cubits, thou hast transported the gods of Pu, thou hast completed the gods of the East, and thou hast made this Pepi to travel with thee in the cabin of thy boat.^ This Pepi is the son of Kheprer (the Beetle-god),^ who was born in Hetepet-hemt (?), under the hair of lusaas,^ to the north of Anu, and came forth from the brow of Keb. This Pepi is he who was between the thighs of Khent-Merti, on the night of the grinding (?) of the weapon (?), and on the day of sharpening (?) the tips of the weapons. Thou hast received thy spear (or, harpoon)* and thy fighting weapon wherewith thou layest waste the lands — now its hooks (or, barbs) are the fiery darts of Ra, and its two staves are the claws of the Lynx-goddess^ (or. Leopard-goddess). Pepi smasheth in the heads of the enemies of Horus who are in Sekhet-hetep. Pepi descendeth {i.e., embarketh) on the Great Green,^ and, O Great Green, thou hast bowed thy head and bent thy knees [before him]. And these Children of Nut have embarked on thee; and they have put their crowns on their heads, and chains of db flowers round their necks. " The Mediterranean Sea.