Egyptian religious poetry

I. HYMNS TO THE SUN

I

Oren the gates of Heaven, raise the gates of the sky! Open the gates of the sky, raise the gates of Heaven for the Horus of the gods, when he comes forth at break of day, purified in the Field of Reeds.

Open the gates of Heaven, raise the gates of the sky !_ Open the gates of the sky, raise the gates of Heaven for the Horus of the East, when he comes forth at break of day, purified in the Field of Reeds.

Open the gates of Heaven, raise the gates of the sky ! open the gates of the sky, raise the gates of Heaven for Osiris, when he comes forth at break of day, purified in the Field of Reeds.

Open the gates of Heaven, raise the gates of the sky !_ Open the gates of the sky, raise the gates of Heaven for the King, when he comes forth at break of day, purified in the Field of Reeds. [p.r., Spr., 472]

2

Oren, O Heaven! Open, O Earth ! Open, O West ! Open, O East! Let the Shrine of the South be opened, and the Shrine of the North be opened. Let the doors be flung wide and the Nether World be opened for the Sun-god that he may come forth from his horizon. Open for him the gates, O Boat of the Evening ; fling wide for him the Nether World, O Boat of the Morning. [B.B.D., ch. cxxx] 57