Egyptian religious poetry

70 EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS POETRY

7

My name was given to me in the Great Shrine, and there was remembrance of me and my name in the House of Flame on that Night of Counting the Years and the Numbering of the Months. [B.B.D., ch. xxv]

8 Verse transcription of No. 7

In the Southern Shrine, the Southern Shrine, A Name was given to me,

In the House of Flame, the House of Flame, Remembrance was made of me.

On that Night of Dread, that Night of Dread, The years were counted for me ;

When months were reckoned for living and dead They were reckoned and counted for me.

THE SACRIFICE OF THE KING

Tuoucu there is no consecutive ritual of the sacrifice given in the Pyramid Texts, the chants and prayers of that important ceremony are found scattered in each of the inscriptions. In translating, I have put the word “ King” instead of the name of the Pharaoh in whose burial chamber the text is found ; but in the Index of References the names will be found. The ritual can be divided into four stages : (a) the preparatory prayers and chants, (b) the actual sacrifice, (c) the triumph of the King after death, (d) the slaying of the slayer of the King.