The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . e. [Men] praise thee in thy name [Ra],and they swear by thee, for thou art lord over them. Thouhast heard with thine ears and thou hast seen with thineeyes. Millions of years have gone over the world; thosethrou^ri which thou hast passed I cannot count. Thy hearthath decreed a day of happiness in thy name [of Ra]. Thoudost pass over and travellest through untold spaces ofmillions and hundreds of thousands of years, thou settest inpeace and thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss tothe place which thou lovest; this thou doest in one littlemoment
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . e. [Men] praise thee in thy name [Ra],and they swear by thee, for thou art lord over them. Thouhast heard with thine ears and thou hast seen with thineeyes. Millions of years have gone over the world; thosethrou^ri which thou hast passed I cannot count. Thy hearthath decreed a day of happiness in thy name [of Ra]. Thoudost pass over and travellest through untold spaces ofmillions and hundreds of thousands of years, thou settest inpeace and thou steerest thy way across the watery abyss tothe place which thou lovest; this thou doest in one littlemoment of time, and thou dost sink down and makest anend of the hours. Hail my lord, thou that passest througheternity and whose being is everlasting. Hail thou Disk,lord of beams of light, thou risest and thou makest allmankind to live. Grant thou that I may behold thee atdawn each day. From the scene on p. 87, we may form an idea of howthe deceased was supposed to employ his time in the islands of the blessed, which the Egyptians called Sexet-. 88 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. Hetepu. Here we have an estate intersected by canals ofwaters. To the left in the upper division are three poolscalled Qenqenet, Anttenet and Nut-ur. Beneath is thelegend:—The being in peace in the Fields of Air(?).Before three gods who are described as gods of the hori-zon, is an altar with flowers, an offering to the great god,the lord of heaven. On a pylon stands a hawk. Next wesee the deceased making an offering of incense to his ownsoul in the form of a human-headed hawk ^^. In a boat,in which stand tables of offerings, sits the deceased paddlinghimself along. The legend reads, Osiris, the living one,the victorious one sailing over the Lake of Peace. Behind,the deceased and his father and mother are offering incenseto the great cycle of the gods; close by stands Thoththe scribe of the gods. In the second division the deceased,with his father and mother, s adoring Hapi (Nile), thefather of the gods, and
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