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shall not destroy men. The Majesty of the King of Upper and 
Lower Egypt, Ra, ordered 
22 in the midst of the night to pour out the water of the vessels, and the 
fields were entirely covered with water through the will of the 
Majesty of the god ; and there came 
23 the goddess at the morning, and she found the fields covered with 
water and she was pleased with it and she drank to her satisfaction, 
and she went away satisfied, and she saw no 
24 men. Said by the Majesty of Ra to this goddess : Come in peace, 
thou gracious goddess, and there arose the young priestess of Amu.* 
Said by the Majesty of Ra to the goddess : 
25 I order that libations be made to her at every festival of the new 
year under the direction of my priestesses. Hence it comes that 
libations are made under the direction of priestesses at the festival 
of Hathob. 
26 through all men since the days of old + 
25. These lines are all which immediately relate to the destruc- 
tion of mankind. After them, verses 27 to 62 are occupied 
chiefly with J conversations between Ra, Nu, Seb, and Osiris, to 
whom was committed by Ra the care of the various regions of 
heaven and earth. The god afterwards seems to have taken a kind 
of divine progress from the heavens to the earth to behold their 
performance of their respective duties, and the condition of 
the re-created sons of men. This done, Ra then again returns 
to heaven, and now once more sends for the god Thoth, with 
whom he proposes again to visit the earth. These events carry 
on the mystical book to verse 74, when the usual depreca- 
tory rubric, imposing secrecy on the worshipper, commences, 
and which, as similar specimens have been already cited, it is 
not necessary again to repeat. 
62 said by the Majesty of the god : I call before me Thoth, and Ihoth 
came immediately. Said 
63 by the Majesty of the god to Thoth : Come let us leave the sky 
64 and my abode, because I wish 
65 to make a luminary 
66 in the inferior sky and in the deep region 
* An unidentified town. The word generally implied foreigners or 
Asiatics, “ the detested, the impure, the vile Amu." 
f This last clause is again evidently a rubric. + Lacuna}. 
