Pyramid Texts

Pyramid Texts — Budge 1911 Pepi I / Merenre / Pepi II selections — sourcepage 367

Appendix 353 they retreat from the place where thou art. Thy sister Isis stretcheth out her hand to thee, she consoleth (?) thee — Kamt-urt — through thy name of Kamt-urt. Thou encirclest everything with thy hand in thy name of " Teben Ha-nebu."^ Thou art mighty through thy name of " Aa-sek."^ Horus bringeth Set to thee, he giveth him to thee, he (Set) boweth his back before thee, thy strength (or, valour) is greater than his. Horus maketh thee to encircle with thy hand all the gods [i.e., all the gods are in the hollow of thy hand). Horus loveth his father in thee, he permitteth not thee to be injured. Horus is not more wonderful than thou, he avengeth his father in thee. Thou livest with the life of the Beetle (Khepera?), thou art firmly established in Tetet (Busiris). Isis and Nephthys work protection by magic for thee in the city of Saut,^ they recognize thee as their lord in thy name of " Neb-Saut," and as their god in thy name of " She-neter." They adore thee; depart not thou from them. Isis cometh to thee rejoicing at thy love. Thy seed entereth her, she becometh heavy with childlike Sept (Sothis). Heru-Sept cometh forth from thee in his name of " Horus in Septet." Thou shinest in him in his name of Khu-am-tchenteru.* Horus avengeth thee through his name " Horus the son who avengeth his father." The Father standeth up, and this Osiris [Pepi] standeth up.^ I am he, thy son. I am Horus. I have come to thee to wash thee, to purify thee, to vivify thee, to knit together thy bones, to collect thy humours, to unite thy hacked flesh. Behold, I am Horus the avenger of his father. I have smitten thee, smitten ; I have saved thee, O father Osiris, from the hand of him that would do thee harm. I have come unto thee as the J , i.e., "Circuit of the Lords of the North," (1. 142). " ^ 1 -^=:^ 7:XX. , 1. 14 ^ Mer-en-Ra, 1. 446 = Pepi II, 1. 1257.