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3. Prophet of Amen - Ra, Shat- 

 Tot - Samtati - Afanch ( sacerdotal 

 name), born of the ladj Anchta,— 

 said: "O! Lord of Gods, Chnum, 

 King of the double land, 



4. Ruler of the Districts, who ri- 

 sest to enlighten the earth, whose 

 right eye is the solar disk, whose 

 left eye is the moon, whose spirit is 



5. Shu (the dawn), from whose 

 nostrils issues the north wind, to 

 enliven all creatures : I am the pro- 

 phet; my heart is according to thj 

 ways ; 1 have been faithful unto 

 thee; 



6. I have made no dwelling (for 

 myself) except thy dwelling; I have 



not turned away from doing 



Everyone's heart rejoiced, there was 

 exultation in every house. 



7. on seeing what thou hast done 

 for me to their advantage, many 

 •and many times. Thou didst give 

 me entrance to the palace, the heart 

 of the god (king) was pleased 



8. with my words. Thou didst 

 grant to me the oil of gladness, in 

 that thou didst spare Egypt. Thou 

 didst put kindness into the heart of 

 the ruler of Asia; 



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progenitor of the conqueror of the 

 hideous, 



the builder of the glory of the illus- 

 trious regent, the manager of the 

 terrestrial garden of all nations, and 

 of the governess, his consort. He 

 says: "I am the lord of the gods, 

 the Lord El, the prince of the hosts, 



the king of the nations, the com- 

 poser of the illustrious king as well 

 as of his sons ; his right eye, that is, 

 the majesty of the sun ; his left eye, 

 that is, the splendor of the moon; 

 his face, that is, 



the vault of splendor, the taberna- 

 cle of luminaries fixed on its bosom. 

 Again, I created all other beings, 

 the poor man and the rich man, 

 and the souls in the water, and all 

 sorts of souls in the field, and 



the woods ; I made the shape of the 

 man, the filament of the muscles, 

 the filament of the skin ; I combined 

 the hair of the man, likewise the 

 beard ; I made the egg of the child 

 within the man ; I wove the heart 

 for many joys, for many pleasures 

 in the house and 



outside of the mansion ; I made the 

 virtue of the man for benefitting 

 even his own ones by many joys, 

 in contemplating the grand build- 

 ing, in seeing the pride of the impe- 

 rial house, the court of the kind god, 

 highminded in the heart 



to everybody, the image of the great 

 Lord for thy sake, who made anew 

 a multitude of joys by making in 

 thy behalf this chamber, the domi- 

 cile of the Creator of the world, who 

 planted in the heart of the king love 

 towards the generation in the cir- 

 cuit of the earth ; I created 



