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he appears with the royal fillet* by the orders of Seb. He 
takes the royalty of the two worlds, 
the crown of the upper region is fixed on his head. 
He judges the world as he likes ; 
heaven and earth are below the place of his face,t 
he commands mankind — 
the intellectual beings, 
the race of the Egyptians 
and the northern barbarians. 
The circuit of the solar disk is under his management ; 
The winds, the waters, the wood of the plants and all 
vegetables. A god of seeds, he gives all herbs and all the abun- 
dance of the ground. He affords plentifulness, and gives it to 
ail the earth. All men are in ecstasy, all hearts in sweetness, 
all bosoms in joy, 
all persons are in adoration, 
every one glorifies his goodness, for mild is his love for us, his 
teuderness surrounds our hearts ; 
great is his love in all breasts. . . 
Sanctifying, beneficent is his name. 
Veneration finds its place (for him), 
immutable respect is for his laws ; 
the path is open, the footpaths are opened, 
both worlds are at rest ; 
Evil flies afar off, and the earth brings forth abundantly under 
her Lord. 
Justice is confirmed by its Lord, who chases (away) iniquity. 
Mild is thy heart, O Unnefer, son of Isis; 
He has taken the crown of the upper region ; to him is acknow- 
ledged his father’s authority in the great dwelling of Seb ; J 
(he is) Ra when speaking, Thoth w hen writing ; the divine 
chiefs are at rest. 
What thy father Seb has commended for thee, let that be 
done according to his word. Amen.” § 
Many of these sentences, as they occur in a hymn to Osiris, 
have a direct reference to that deity also, which, considering 
his peculiar oneness of nature with his redeeming son, is not to 
be wondered at. Neither are the parallelisms to certain sub- 
lime passages in the book of Psalms and the later chapters of 
Isaiah to be considered extraordinary; tliey all spring from the 
same intense unsatisfied yearnings of the human heart after 
God which is prompted, let us believe, by the inspiration of 
* The Atef crown (or diadem). t Or “ are beneath his eye.” 
I This means the earth. § See Records of the Fast, vol. ii. pp. 102-3. 
