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(20) If you wish to do it by vessel alone, you fill your
eyes with this ointment, you sit (?) [over the vessel?]
as aforesaid, your eyes being (21) closed; you utter the
above invocation seven times, you open your eyes, you
ask him concerning everything [that you wish (?)]. . .
you do it from the (22) fourth day of the lunar month
until the fifteenth day, which is the half-month when the
moon fills the uzat.
[A] vessel-[inquiry] alone in order to see (23) the
bark of Phre. Formula : ' Open to me heaven, O mother
of the gods ! Let [me see the ba]rk of Phre descending
and ascending (24) in it; for I am Geb, heir of the
gods; prayer is what I make before Phre my father
[on account of] the things which have proceeded from
me. (25) O Heknet, great one, lady of the shrine, the
Rishtret (?), Open to me, mistress of the spirits, [open]
to me, primal heaven, let (26) me worship the Angels !
[for] I am Geb, heir of the gods. Hail! ye seven Kings,
ho! ye [seven Monts], bull that engendereth, lord of
strength (27) that lighteth the earth, soul of the abyss ;
ho ! lion as lion of (?) the abyss, bull of the night, hail!
thou that rulest the people of the East, (28) Noun, great
one, lofty one, hail! soul of a ram, soul of the people
of the West, hail! [soul of souls, bull] of the night,
117 seqq.; Leps., Todtenb. Vorvv., p. 6 ; Pap. Ebers LIV. 19 (eighteenth
dynasty), the 7 Hathors (nineteenth dynasty, Pap. Orb. ix. 8; Br., Thes.,
800) and the 42 assessors in the Book of the Dead, ch. 125. The
occurrence of 7 spirits in the very ancient chapter 17 of the Book of
the Dead is of special importance.
The 7 kings are not elsewhere mentioned. ' 4 Monts in their
cities' occurs in the text, ' Que mon nom fleurisse ' (Lieblein, x. 3, and
parallel passages), and 7 is a number associated with Hermonthis, the
city of Mont (Brugsch, Relig., 164, 7 Hathors and 7 Horus, L. D.,
iV" 63 C)" <2 AAAAAA
1. 27. The reading of the name 3) 1==l is uncertain. Rw,
J\ (2. AWM I V I
an obscure lion-god (Hieroglyphs, pp. 17, 18}.
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(20) If you wish to do it by vessel alone, you fill your
eyes with this ointment, you sit (?) [over the vessel?]
as aforesaid, your eyes being (21) closed; you utter the
above invocation seven times, you open your eyes, you
ask him concerning everything [that you wish (?)]. . .
you do it from the (22) fourth day of the lunar month
until the fifteenth day, which is the half-month when the
moon fills the uzat.
[A] vessel-[inquiry] alone in order to see (23) the
bark of Phre. Formula : ' Open to me heaven, O mother
of the gods ! Let [me see the ba]rk of Phre descending
and ascending (24) in it; for I am Geb, heir of the
gods; prayer is what I make before Phre my father
[on account of] the things which have proceeded from
me. (25) O Heknet, great one, lady of the shrine, the
Rishtret (?), Open to me, mistress of the spirits, [open]
to me, primal heaven, let (26) me worship the Angels !
[for] I am Geb, heir of the gods. Hail! ye seven Kings,
ho! ye [seven Monts], bull that engendereth, lord of
strength (27) that lighteth the earth, soul of the abyss ;
ho ! lion as lion of (?) the abyss, bull of the night, hail!
thou that rulest the people of the East, (28) Noun, great
one, lofty one, hail! soul of a ram, soul of the people
of the West, hail! [soul of souls, bull] of the night,
117 seqq.; Leps., Todtenb. Vorvv., p. 6 ; Pap. Ebers LIV. 19 (eighteenth
dynasty), the 7 Hathors (nineteenth dynasty, Pap. Orb. ix. 8; Br., Thes.,
800) and the 42 assessors in the Book of the Dead, ch. 125. The
occurrence of 7 spirits in the very ancient chapter 17 of the Book of
the Dead is of special importance.
The 7 kings are not elsewhere mentioned. ' 4 Monts in their
cities' occurs in the text, ' Que mon nom fleurisse ' (Lieblein, x. 3, and
parallel passages), and 7 is a number associated with Hermonthis, the
city of Mont (Brugsch, Relig., 164, 7 Hathors and 7 Horus, L. D.,
iV" 63 C)" <2 AAAAAA
1. 27. The reading of the name 3) 1==l is uncertain. Rw,
J\ (2. AWM I V I
an obscure lion-god (Hieroglyphs, pp. 17, 18}.