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A HYMN TO OSIRIS AND A LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF HORUS.
1. Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose transformations are sublime, whose form is hidden in the temples, whose Ka is holy, the Governor of Ṭeṭut,[1] the mighty one of possessions (?) 2 in the shrine,[2] the lord of praises[3] in the nome of Anetch,[4] President of the tchefa food in Ȧnu,[5] Lord who art commemorated in [the town of] Maāti[6] the mysterious (or, hidden) Soul, the Lord of Qerret,[7] the sublime one in White Wall,[8] the Soul of Rā [and] his very body, who hast thy dwelling in 3 Ḥenensu,[9] the beneficent one, who art praised in Nārt,[10] who makest to rise up thy Soul, Lord of the Great House in the city[11] of the Eight Gods,[12]
- ↑ More fully Pa-Ȧsȧr-neb-Ṭeṭut,
, the Busiris of the Greeks; Busiris = Pa-Ȧsȧr, "House of Osiris," par excellence. The variant Ṭāṭāut,
, also occurs.
- ↑ An allusion, perhaps, to the town Sekhem,
, the capital of the second nome (Letopolites) of Lower Egypt.
- ↑ I.e., lord whose praises are sung.
- ↑ Letopolites.
- ↑ Heliopolis
