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Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections
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Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 352
33^ Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection feet are like those of a jackal ; stand up then. Thy hands are like those of a jackal ; stand up then .... Father Osiris Pepi crieth out to the Steersman,^ father Osiris Pepi crieth out to the captain,^ and they transport father Osiris Pepi in their boat, to the eastern side of heaven, to the place where the gods were born .... father Osiris Pepi is brought forth there in the place where the orods are born. This star cometh on the morrow, and on the third day (?). Behold, father Osiris Pepi standeth up at the door under the belly of heaven .... This Pepi hath taken his apparel {?),^ this Pepi cometh forth to heaven, stablished like the earth, the male (?) in thy body, O Nut, under the seed of the god in thy mother. Pepi is Horus, the seed of the god in thy mother Nut. Thou hast received* this Pepi as thou hast received the son of the god. O Hapath, O Hapath, O Henena, O Henena, make ye Pepi to travel with you, and establish ye him among you. O Heftnet,^ Mother of the Gods, give thou thy hand to this Pepi, give thou his hand for life, draw him to heaven, even as thou hast drawn Osiris to heaven. O Henena, O Henena, O Hapath, O Hapath, make ye Pepi to travel with you, and establish ye him among you. 637. Pure, pure is the Lake of Aaru. Pure is Ra in the Lake of Aaru, and Pepi himself is pure in the Lake of Aaru. Pure is Shu in the Lake of Aaru, and Pepi himself is pure in the Lake of Aaru. O Shu, Shu, lift up this Pepi to heaven, O Nut, give thou thy two hands to him. Hepaf, Hepaf, Henen-henen-henen, Hepaf, Hepaf. Pepi is pure and is conveyed to heaven. This Pepi is stablished with men. This Pepi riseth to the gods. This Pepi riseth with Ra in his rising. Those who are with him are four ; one followeth him, '^''^ ^ [JQJ] [^3J) • ^ Or, swallowed.
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Recorded completeness: Complete supplied dedicated appendix TranslationsfromthePyramidTextsofPepiI,MerenRaandPepiII, printed307–363. These are Budge’s historicalselection of PyramidTextpassages, not the fullancientPyramidTextcorpus or modernMercer/Faulknertranslation. Sourcepassagereferences, gaps, uncertainnotes and rawOCR retained unchanged. Otherreligions/discussion, additionalnotes andindex excluded.. Available reading sections are listed below.
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