Hymns of Philae I
The Beginning - The ConceptionIn the innermost room in the birth house the conception is thought to take place, The Sun God Re Brings His Son close to Thee Isis Giver of all Life Queen of the pure island the mistress Queen of Philae all protection, life and power be with him as with Re in eternity - - - I bring you the inundation of the Nile When that which is in Him goes forth divine nurturess of all lands so that the people of the temple may be in all this goodness He comes into being the god is born the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Horus, son of Isis Through his existence everything has begun When Horus is born, the sun begins to rise, The shadow of Re rises like the lotus bud The creator of the skies is created down on the earth The sky and the earth are filled with his beauty Every face is alivened by the ascendance of the god The lord of the stars is created at the horizon Re is standing next to Isis, carrying the newborn Horus and is speaking to him, Horus-Re speaks: I am the great god lord of the sky I am the one who radiates across the sky of the stars from the seat for the sunrise So that the two lands lightens up I see my son in her sanctuary The sungod Re speaks: The King of the Horus falcons the great god the honoured and foremost to his beloved son the great Horus the son of Osiris I am the god the young soul of Osiris who fills the whole land with the good power of the gods mother I am Horus who shows himself in glory on the throne of his father I am the lord over the nine gods - - - You receive the throne you are the lord of the two lands You unite that which was shattered You receive the united kingdom to bring down the power of Seth In your light You take hold of Egypt you rule the desert all the way to the strange lands The strange peoples are taxed through their work The South lies beneath your terror The North lies beneath your fear The West and the East honour you Kamutef is honoured as the one who unites who carries the flail of power under his arm His altar of offering are greater than all gods - - - You rejoice like the lotus flower the gods protect you The high and the lowly rejoice before you The people of Nubia submit to your power - - - Isis identifies herself with the spouse of the king: I am the great mother queen of the sky mistress of the gods - - - Hail thee venerable one who was born of his sisterīs womb The white crown on his head is stable like his eartly possessions He radiates from his motherīs lap on the day of his birth On the sky the moon grows like the flower of the sky of stars on the day of the birth of Horus - - - The sun mistress the daughter of the lord of gods Spouse of the king who was pregnant and carried the good god who gave birth to the son Horus, the lord Isis, the great mother of gods queen of the mammissi The king has now been ritually born again and is leaving the birth house,the uterus of the goddess,
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