The Splendor of Aton Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of heaven, O living Aton, Beginning of life! When thou risest in the eastern horizon of heaven, Thou fillest every land with thy beauty; For thou are beautiful, great, glittering, high over the earth; Thou art Ra, and thou hast carried them all away captive; Thou bindest them by thy love. Though thou art afar, thy rays are on earth; Though thou art on high, thy footprints are the day. Night When thou settest in the western horizon of heaven, The world is in darkness like the dead. They sleep in their chambers, Their heads are wrapt up, Their nostrils stopped, and none seeth the other Stolen are all their things, that are under their heads, While they know it not. Every lion cometh forth from his den, All serpents, they sting. Darkness reigns, The World is in silence, He that made them has gone to rest in his horizon. Thou makest darkness and it is Night, Wherein al the beasts of the forst do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey; They seek their meat from God. Day and Man Bright is the earth, When thou risest in the horizon, When thou shinest as Aten by day, The darkness is banished, When thou sendest forth thy rays, The Two Lands are in daily festivity, Awake and standing upon their feet, For thou hast raised them up. Their limbs bathed, they take their clothing; Their arms uplifted in adoration to thy dawning. Then in all the world, they do their work. The sun ariseth, they get them away And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work, And to his labour until the evening. Day and the Animals and Plants All cattle rest upon their herbage, All trees and plants flourish, The birds flutter in their marches, Their wings uplifted in adoration to thee. All the sheep dance upon their feet. All winged things fly, They live when thou hast shone upon them. Day and the Waters The barques sail up-stream and down-stream alike. Every highway is open because thou hast dawned. The fish in the river leap up before thee, And thy rays are in the midst of the great sea. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable Both small and great beasts. There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to sport with him. Creation of Man Thou are he who createst the man-child in woman, Who makest seed in man, Who giveth life to the son in the body of his mother, Who soothest him that he may not weep, A nurse even in the womb. Who giveth breath to animate every one that he maketh. When he cometh forth from the body, ...on the day of his birth, Thou openest his mouth in speech, Thou suppliest his necessities. Creation of Animals When the chicklet crieth in the egg-shell, Thou givest him breath therein, to preseve him alive. When thou hast perfected him That he may pierce the egg, He cometh forth from the egg, To chirp with all his might; He runneth about upon his two feet, When he hath come forth therefrom. The Whole Creation How manifold are all thy works! They are hidden from before us, O thou sole god, whose powers no other possesseth. Thou didst create the earth according to thy desire. While thou wast alone: Men, all cattle large and small, All that are upon the earth, That go about upon their feet; All that are on high, That fly with their wings. The countries of Syria and Nubia, The land of Egypt; Thou settest every man in his place, Thou suppliest their necessities. Every one has his possessions, And his days are reckoned. Their tongues are divers in speech, Their forms likewise and their skins, For thou divider ahs divided the peoples. O lord, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; The earth is full of thy creatures. Watering the Earth Thou makest the Nile in the Nether World, Thou bringest it at thy desire, to preserve the people alive. O lord of them all, when feebleness is in them, O lord of every house, who risest for them, O sun of day, the fear of every distant land, Thou makest also their life. Thou hast set a Nile in heaven, That it may fall for them, Making floods upon the mountains, like the great sea; And watering their field among their towns. How excellent are thy designs, O lord of eternity! The Nile in heaven is for the strangers, And for the cattle of every land, that go upon their feet; But the Nile, it cometh from the nether world for Egypt. Thus thy rays nourish every garden, When thou risest they live, and grow by thee. The Seasons Thou makest the seasons, in order to create all thy works: Winter bringing them coolness, And the heat of summer. Thou hast made the distant heaven to rise therein, In order to behold all that thou didst make, While thou wast alone, Rising in thy form as living Aten, Dawning, shining afar off and returning. Beauty Due to Light Thou makest the beauty of form, though thyself alone. Cities, towns and settlements, On highway or on river, All eyes see thee before the, For thou are Aten of the day over the earth. Revelation to the King Thou art in my heart, There is no other that knoweth thee, Save thy son Akhenaten. Thou hast made him wise in thy designs And in thy might. The world is in thy hand, Even as thou hast made them. When thou hast risen, they live; When thou settest, they die. For thou art duration, beyond thy mere limibs, By thee man liveth, And their eyes look upon thy beauty, Until thou settest. All labour is laid aside, When thou settest in the west; When thou risest, they are made to grow ...for the king. Since thou didst establish the earth, Thou hast raised them up for thy son, Who came forth from thy limbs, The king, living in truth, The lord of the Two Lands, Neferkheprure, Wanenre, The son of Ra, living in truth, lord of diadems, Akhenaten, whose life is long; And for the great royal wife, his beloved, Mistress of the Two Lands, Nefernefruaten, Nefertiti, Living and flourishing for ever and ever.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:28:20 +0000
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