Unas - East Wall, Utterances 220-224

The Pyramid Texts

The Pyramid Texts were funerary inscriptions that were written on the walls of the early Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Sakkara the necropolis of Memphis (Unis of the 5th Dynasty, and Teti, Pepi I, Merenre and Pepi II of the 6th Dynasty). These date back to the 5th and 6th dynasties, approximately years 2350-2175 BCE. However, because of extensive internal evidence, it is believed that they were composed much earlier, circa 3000 BCE. The Pyramid Texts are, therefore, essentially the oldest sacred texts known.

The main theme in the Pyramid Texts is the king's resurrection and ascension to the Afterworld and this is described in many different ways, but often the dead king is associated with Osiris and the resurrected king with Horus. Generally, the text is supposed to provide services to the deceased king in his ascent into the sky and with his reception in the world of the divine. The texts were written down by Heliopolitan solar-worshippers of Re but probably came from older beliefs that were more celestial in nature, in which the deceased king as a star was prominent. Re first appeared in the 2nd dynasty.

In the earliest of these texts two very ancient doctrines may be discerned: that of the old heaven-god, perhaps Horus the elder, in which the deceased king as a star was prominent, and that of the sun-god where the deceased as the sun-god was contemplated. But the two were harmonized doubtless at a very early period, when the celestial abode of the heaven- and star-gods became identified with that of the solar deities.

The texts very much equate Set and Horus as equals in behaviour ruling over two seperate parts of Egypt. Where Horus is mentioned Set is often mentioned in a similar manner. The texts also contain basic versions of the familiar myths of Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris and the contendings of Horus and Set over the throne of Osiris.

Summary of the content regarding Horus

One problem that seems apparant is that sometimes the term Horus refers to the God Horus and other times it may refer to the ressurected pharoah in the afterlife in terms that don't strictly apply to Horus as seperate from the pharoah.

  • Horus has power over the horizons/inhabits the horizon (Utterance 6/264/473) Horus of the horizon is born anew on the eastern side of heaven (473)
  • Horus is chief in and of the Duat (7/266)
  • The Pharoah is Horus when alive and when revived, as such he is King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of Ombos (9)
  • The eye of Horus is purifying, its perfume drives away sweat, it defends against the violence of Set, it is sound (29)
  • The eye of Horus was wrested from Set (54)
  • Set robbed Horus of his eye and enjoyed himself over it, it is guarded by Geb (57)
  • Horus tore out Sets thigh (61)
  • The eye of Horus in Buto awakes in peace, it is in the houses of the lower egyptian crown (81)
  • Set has eaten little of the eye of Horus (90)
  • There is a damsel in the eye of Horus (155)
  • The eye of Horus is white/green (161-162)
  • Horus is chief of the houses (212)
  • Horus is born with the name "Him at whom the earth quakes", born of Osiris (215)
  • Horus has made his father Osiris to endure and live, Geb and Nut are the parents of Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys and Thot (219)
  • The centipede of Horus belongs in the earth, Horus was an ox-herd (240)
  • The blue-eyed and the red-eyed Horus come against the pharoah, furious in wrath (246)
  • The horizon burns incense to Horus of Nh(n (255)
  • The pharoah is on the throne of Horus the eldest (256)
  • Horus and Set take Pharoah to the Duat (271)
  • Horus falls because of his eye (277)
  • Horus comes forth from the acacia and was warned "be thou aware of the lion" (294)
  • Horus who is over the shd.w of heaven, Horus of H.t, Horus of Ssm.t, Horus of the East. Pharoah brings him his intact left eye, it is choice oil and willow tree and that which sparkles and oil of pleasure. Horus is Lord of the green stone (301)
  • Horus is the eldest, son of Hathor, seed of Geb (303)
  • Haroeris of K.us is Lord of the South (319)
  • The double doors of heaven/k.bh.w open for Horus/Harachte/Horus of the East/Horus of the Ssm.t-land at daybreak that he may ascend to the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself (325)
  • Horus has caused Thot to turn back the followers of Set and bring them to the Pharoah. Thy son Horus has snatched back his eye from your enemy and given it to you. Horus has recognised his father Osiris in the dead Pharoah. Horus has placed Set beneath thee. Horus has avenged the pharoah because his ka is in the Pharoah. Horus avenged his father Osiris. (356)
  • The eye of Horus sprang up as he fell on the side of the Winding Watercourse to protect/free itself from Set, it fell upon the wing of Thot (359)
  • The pharoah is the ka of Horus. Horus has placed Pharoah at the head of the gods and given him his eye, its name is "Fullness of God". Horus has united Pharoahs limbs and set him up in his name H.nw-boat. (364)
  • Horus does not allow the pharoah to be sick, he places the enemy under his feet, he gives his children to pharoah to carry him (364)
  • The pharoahs phallus is pointed like Sothis, Horus the pointed has come forth from him as Horus who was in Sothis, his name is "spirit who was in the dndr.w-boat", he is "Horus the son who avenges his father" (366/593)
  • The sandal/sole of foot of Horus trod upon the serpent, Horus is a young child with his finger in his mouth as is Pharoah (378)
  • Horus is lord of men and gods (468)
  • Horus has a lion-helmet on his head (478)
  • The double doors of heaven are open for Horus of the Gods, Horus of the East, Horus of the Ssm.t-land that he may ascend at daybreak and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds (479)
  • Fear came into being on account of the eye of Horus (486)
  • Morning star, Horus of the Duat (Is Pharoah/Osiris the Horus of the Duat?), the divine falcon, the great green. Isis burned incense before her son Horus, the young child, when he journeyed through the land wearing two white sandals to see Osiris. Horus took the house of his father from the brother of his father, Set, in the presence of Geb (519)
  • Horus of Nekhen has given Pharoah his spirits the jackals. Pharoah passes through the regions of Horus of the South and Horus of the North, he ascends like Horus of the Duat, chief of the imperishable stars, hereditary prince and king of the gods. (536)
  • Horus lies down in the night bark and awakes in the day bark, he gazes on the gods, no gods gaze on him (573)
  • Pharoah is "Horus in the great green", "Horus chief of spirits", "Horus, chief of spirits, star which ferries over the great green." (576)
  • The eye of Horus (the sun) hearkens only to Horus, it carries him wherever he desires. The doors open to Horus who made them, he rescued them from every evil Set did to them, he settled them in the name of Settlements. (587)
  • The name of Horus endures in Buto (601)
  • The eye of Horus is mounted on the wing of his brother Set (615)
  • Horus of Hierakonopolis gave Pharoah the jackal spirits (676)
  • Horus comes forth from the Nile. The eye of Horus is intact and lives in Heliopolis (683)
  • Ims.ti, H.pi, Dw-mu.t.f and K.bh-sn.w.f are the offspring of Horus of Letopolis (688)

Quotes from the Texts (as translated by Samuel A. B. Mercer)

The letter N. (nomen) is used throughout to indicate the dead pharoah.

  • Utterance 6.
    • To say by Nut-Nekhbet, the great: This is (my) beloved, N., (my) son;
    • I have given the horizons to him, that he may be powerful over them like Harachte.

  • Utterance 7.
    • To say by Nut, the great, (who is) within the encircled mansion: This is (my) son N., of (my) heart.
    • I have given to him the D?.t, that he may be chief therein, like Horus, chief of the D?.t.

  • Utterance 10.
    • Horus lives, living apparition of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, N.,
    • (of the land of) the two goddesses, living apparition, N.,
    • (of the land of) the two lords (of Ombos), N.,
    • Osiris, lord of the D?.t, N.,
    • the beloved son of Geb, N.,
    • son of Nut, opener of her body (womb), N.,
    • endowed with life, endurance, joy, health, like Re-‘, eternally.

    Excerpts from the Ritual of Bodily Restoration

  • Utterance 25-33
    • Osiris N., I have given to thee the eye of Horus, so that thy face may be equipped with it.
    • Let the odour of the eye of Horus adhere to thee. To be said four times: Fire of incense.

    • Horus who art in Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus for thou art as the eye of Horus which/who has extended with its odour.

    • Osiris N., Horus has given to thee his eye that thou mayest equip thy face with it. One pellet of incense.

    • To say: O N., I have come, I have brought to thee the eye of Horus,
    • that thou mayest equip thy face with it, that it may purify thee, that its odour may (come) to thee.
    • The odour of the eye of Horus is for N.; it drives away thy sweat.
    • It defends thee against the violence (?) of the arm of Set.
    • O N., the eye of Horus, is pleasing to thee; it is sound for thee. The eye of Horus is sound; thou art sound. Three pellets of incense.

    • To say: Horus, dweller in Osiris N., equip thee with the eye of Horus; take it to thee.

    • To say: Osiris N., Horus has completely filled thee with his eye.

    • This is thy cool water, Osiris; this is thy cool water, O N., which went forth from thy son, which went forth from Horus.
    • I have come; I have brought to thee the eye of Horus, that thy heart may be refreshed by it. I have brought it to thee. It is under thy soles.
    • Take to thyself the efflux (sweat), which goes forth from thee; thy heart shall not be weary thereby.
    • To say four times, when thou goest forth justified: Libation; two pellets of natron.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself this thy libation, which is offered to thee by Horus,
    • in thy name of "He who is come from the Cataract"; take to thyself the efflux (sweat) which goes forth from thee.
    • Horus has made me assemble for thee the gods from every place to which thou goest.
    • Horus has made me count (for) thee the children of Horus even to the place where thou wast drowned.
    • Osiris N., take to thyself thy natron, that thou mayest be divine.

  • Utterance 47.
    • Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, which is free from Set, and which thou shalt take to thy mouth,
    • and with which thou shalt open thy mouth. Wine; one white mnw-stone h?ts'-jar.

  • Utterance 54.
    • N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, wrested from Set, which was taken from thee, with which thou openest thy mouth

  • Utterance 57-62
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of this Horus, which was taken by him from Set--he had robbed it. One tail.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, which is guarded by Geb. One bs-block.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus over which Set enjoyed himself. Ms'i (?) pn mr.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus. which he saw side (by side) with Set. A dagger.

    • To say: Osiris, N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, and the ointment for him, which [he] put in it. A trimmed garment.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus; be like it (in) its wisdom. A s'?.t-garment

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the thigh of Set torn out by Horus. A royal garment of ntri-stuff.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the water in the eye of Horus. Do not separate thyself from it. A h.r-s'-club.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, whose water Thot saw therein. A trimmed (garment); one mdw-club; one sword.

  • Utterance 81.
    • Awake thou in peace, (as) T?i.t awakes, in peace, (as) T?it.t (she of T?i.t) awakes in peace,
    • (as) the eye of Horus in Buto (awakes) in peace, (as) the eye of Horus which is in the houses of the Lower Egyptian crown (awakes) in peace,
    • (the eye) which the weavers wove (?), (the eye) which the sedan-chairman planned (?).
    • Cause thou (0 Eye) the two lands to bow to N., as they bow to Horus,.

  • Utterance 87-92.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus; unite it with thy mouth. Food: One loaf; one beer.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus; take care lest he trample it. One ttw (?)-bread.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, which intimidates him. One t?-rth.-loaf.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus; what Set has eaten of it is little. One mug of ds'r.t-beer.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, which they put out for him. One mug of h(nms'-beer.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the eye of Horus, put it to thy face. To lift up one bread, one beer.

  • Utterance 106.
    • To say: O N., I am thy son; I am Horus.
    • I am come; I have brought to thee the two bodily eyes of Horus.
    • Take them; unite them to thyself.
    • I have collected them for thee; I have united them for thee--they are whole (?).
    • Horus [has placed?] them before N.,
    • that they may lead N. [to k.bh..w, to Horus, to heaven to the] Great [God],
    • [that they may avenge] N. of a[ll] his enemies.
    • [O N., I bring to thee the two eyes of] Horus, which make his heart glad.

  • Utterance 155.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the damsel who is in the eye of Horus; open thy mouth with her.

  • Utterance 161-162.
    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the white eye of Horus; prevent him from tearing it out.

    • To say: Osiris N., take to thyself the green eye of Horus; prevent him from tearing it out.

  • Utterance 212.
    • To say: The eye of Horus drips on the tuft of the dn.w-plant.
    • H(nti-’imntiw came to him;
    • he brought food to him, an offering of Horus who is chief of the houses,
    • (for) he lives on that on which N. lives,
    • he eats that which N. eats, he drinks, that which N. drinks.

  • Utterance 213.
    • Thou travelest over the regions of Horus; thou travelest over the regions of Set
      (or, the regions of Horus serve thee; the regions of Set serve thee).

  • Utterance 215.
    • (So) shalt thou see those who are in the palace, (that is) Horus and Set.
    • Mayest thou spit in the face of Horus; mayest thou drive away the injury from him.
    • Mayest thou catch the testicles of Set; mayest thou drive away his mutilation.
    • That one was born to thee; this one was conceived by thee.
    • Thou art born, O Horus, as one whose name is "Him at whom the earth quakes."
      [Thou art conceived, O Set, as one whose name is] "Him at whom heaven trembles."
    • That one (Horus) has not a mutilation; this one (Set) has not an injury;
      this one (Set) has not an injury; that one (Horus) has not a mutilation.
    • Thou art born, Horus, of Osiris; thou art more ba than he, thou art more s'h(m than he.
    • Thou art conceived, Set by Geb; thou art more ba than he, thou art more s'h(m than he.

    • Thy head is (that of) Horus of the D?.t, O Imperishable.

  • Utterance 219.
    • Horus, this thy father is this one here, Osiris., whom thou hast made to endure and to live.
      (previous lines list Geb and Nut as the parents of Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Thot)

  • Utterance 222.
    • Thou art born because of (like) Horus; thou art conceived because of (like) Set;
    • Thou didst purify thyself in the Falcon-nome; thou didst receive thy purification in the Nome of the Integral Ruler, from thy father, from Atum.

  • Utterance 240.
    • To say: The uraeus-serpent belongs to heaven; the centipede of Horus, belongs in the earth.
    • Horus was an ox-herd when he trod on (things). N. treads upon the walk (gliding-place) of Horus,
    • while N. knows not him who is not known.
    • A face is, upon thee, thou who art in his (thy) n?w.t-bush; mayest thou be lain on thy back, thou who art in his (thy) hole.
    • Meat-cooker of Horus, escape into the earth. O let the beast, O desert, glide away.

  • Utterance 246.
    • The blue-eyed Horus comes against you; guard yourselves against the red-eyed Horus,
    • furious in wrath, whose might no one withstands.

  • Utterance 255.
    • To say: The Horizon burns incense to Horus of Nh(n; provisions for the lords.
    • The horizon burns incense to Horus of Nh(n,
    • the heat of its flaming breath is against you who surrounded the chapel,
    • the poison of its flaming breath is against you who wear the Great (Lower Egyptian crown).
    • The horizon burns incense to Horus of Nh(n; provisions for the lords.

  • Utterance 256.
    • To say: N. has inherited Geb; N. has inherited Geb.
    • He has inherited Atum; he is upon the throne of Horus, the eldest.
    • His eye is his might; his protection consists in that which was done to him.

  • Utterance 266.
    • Re has [taken] N. to himself to heaven, on the eastern side of heaven;
    • he is like Horus, of the Duat; he is like that star which radiates heaven.
    • The sister of N. is Sothis; [the mother of N. is the morning star];

  • Utterance 271.
    • Horus and Set lay hold of the arm of N.; they take him to the Duat.
    • He (Horus) to whom it was signalled (winked): "Guard thyself against him to whom (this) is ordered";
    • he (Set) to whom it was ordered: "Guard thyself against him to whom (this) is signalled (winked)."

  • Utterance 277.
    • To say: Horus falls because of his eye; the bull (Set) collapses because of his testicles.

  • Utterance 294.
    • To say: N. is Horus who comes forth from the acacia, who comes forth from the acacia,
    • to whom it was, commanded: "Be thou aware of the lion," he comes forth to whom it was commanded: "Be thou aware of the lion."

  • Utterance, 299.
    • To say: The uraeus-serpent is for heaven; the centipede of Horus is for the earth.
    • Horus had a sandal as he advanced (towards) the master of the house, the bull of the hole,
    • the combat-serpent. N. will not be beaten,
    • (for) his protective sycamore is the protective sycamore of N., his refuge is the refuge of N.

  • Utterance 301.
    • Ye shall (or, should) not hinder N. when he ferries to the horizon to him.
    • N. knows him, knows his name. Nh.i is, his name, Nh.i lord of the year is his name;
    • he with the warrior's arm, Horus who is over the shd.w of heaven, who causes Re to live every day.
    • He will rebuild N.; he will cause N. to live every day.
    • N. comes to thee, Horus of H.t; N. comes to thee, Horus of Ssm.t;
    • N. comes to thee, Horus of the East.
    • Behold, N. brings to thee thy great left eye as healer.
    • Take it, the intact (one), to thyself from N.; its water is in it, being intact;
    • its blood is in it, being intact; its breath is in it, being intact.
    • Enter into it; take possession of it, in this thy name of "Sacred H.k.3s" (a god),
    • that thou mayest approach to it in this thy name of "Re".
    • Put it on thy brow, in this, its name of "choice oil",
    • that thou mayest rejoice in it, in this its name of "willow-tree",
    • that thou mayest sparkle thereby among the gods, in this its name of "that which sparkles", ("th.nw.t-oil"),
    • that thou mayest be pleased with it in this its name of "oil of pleasure", ("h.kn.w-oil").

    • Thou art become a soul, thou art become pre-eminent (sharp),
      (like) Horus lord of the green-stone-- (to say) four times--(like) the two green falcons.

  • Utterance 303.
    • Art thou Horus, son of Osiris? Art thou, O N., the god, the eldest, son of Hathor?
    • Art thou the seed of Geb?
    • Osiris has ordained that N. dawn as a second Horus.

  • Utterance 304.
    • Art thou a pure westerner? I come from the falcon city.

  • Utterance 306.
    • The regions of the kingdom, the kingdom of Horus, the kingdom of Set, (and)
    • the Marshes of Reeds, they adore thee

  • Utterance 319.
    • The mouth of N. is immune because of a flaming breath, the head of N. because of horns, (as) lord of the South Haroëris of K.us).

  • Utterance 325.
    • To say: The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of k.bh.w are open
    • for Horus of the gods, at daybreak,
    • that he may ascend in the Marsh of Reeds and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds.
    • (repeated for Harachte, Horus of the East and Horus of the Šsm.t-land)

  • Utterance 356.
    • To say: O Osiris N., Horus has come that he may seek thee.
    • He has caused that Thot turn back for thee the Followers of Set,
    • and that he bring them to thee all together.
    • He has made the heart of Set timid. Thou art greater (or, elder) than he;
    • thou didst come forth (from the womb) before him; thy qualifications are better than his.
    • Geb has seen thy qualifications; he has put thee in thy place.
    • Geb has brought to thee thy two sisters, to thy side, Isis and Nephthys.
    • Horus has caused the gods to unite with thee,
    • to fraternize with thee in thy name of "He of the two snw.t-palaces,"
    • but not to reject thee in thy name of "He of the two ’itr.t-palaces."
    • He has caused the gods to avenge thee.
    • Geb has put the sole of his foot on the head of thine enemy, who is afraid of thee.
    • Thy son Horus has smitten him;
    • he has snatched back his eye from him; he has given it to thee,
    • that thou mayest become glorious thereby, that thou mayest become mighty before the spirits.
    • Horus has caused thee to seize thine enemy, that there should be none escaping among them from thee.
    • Horus was indeed ingenious in that be recognized in thee his father, in thy name of b?-’iti-rp.t.
    • Nut has established thee as god, in spite of Set, in thy name of "god";
    • thy mother Nut has, spread herself over thee in her name of "She of Št-p.t."
    • Horus has seized Set; he has placed him under thee
    • that be may carry thee and that he may quake under thee like the quaking of the earth,
    • for thou art more exalted than he, in thy name of "He of the exalted land."
    • Horus has caused that thou recognize him (Set) in himself without his getting away from thee;
    • he has caused that thou seize him with thy hand without his escaping from thee.
    • O Osiris N., Horus has avenged thee;
    • he has done (it) for his ka in thee, that thou mayest be satisfied in thy name of "Satisfied ka."

  • Utterance 357.
    • Isis and Nephthys have seen thee; they have found thee.
    • Horus has taken care of thee; Horus has caused Isis and Nephthys to protect thee.
    • They have given thee to Horus that he may be satisfied with thee.
    • It is pleasing to Horus (to be) with thee in thy name of "He of the horizon, whence Re goes forth,"
    • in thine arms in thy name of "He from within the palace."
    • Thou hast closed thine arms about him, about him,
    • so that his bones stretch and he become proud.
    • O Osiris N., betake thyself to Horus,
    • approach thyself to him, do not go far from him.
    • Horus has come, he recognizes thee;
    • he has smitten (and) bound Set for thee, for thou art his ka.
    • Horus has made him afraid of thee, for thou art greater than he;
    • he swims under thee; he carries in thee one greater than he.
    • His followers have noticed thee how thy strength is greater
    • so that they dare not resist thee. than his,
    • Horus comes; he recognizes his father in thee, for thou art young in thy name of "He of the fresh water."
    • Horus has opened for thee thy mouth.
    • O Osiris N., be not in distress, groan not.
    • Geb has brought Horus to thee, that he may count for thee their hearts.
    • He has brought to thee all the gods together; there is not one among them who escapes him.
    • Horus has avenged thee; it was not long till he avenged thee.
    • Horus has snatched back his eye from Set; he has given it to thee.
    • This his eye, the sweet one, cause it to stay with thee, reclaim it for thyself. O may it be pleasing to thee.
    • Isis has taken care of thee.
    • The heart of Horus is glad because of thee in thy name of "He who is First of the Westerners."
    • It is Horus who will avenge what Set has done to thee.

  • Utterance 359.
    • To say: Horus has moaned because of his eye; Set has moaned because of his testicles.
    • The eye of Horus sprang up as he fell on yonder side of the Winding Watercourse,
    • to protect itself against (or, free itself from) Set.
    • Thot saw it on yonder side of the Winding Watercourse.
    • The eye of Horus sprang up on yonder side of the Winding Watercourse,
    • and fell upon the wing of Thot on yonder side of the Winding Watercourse.
    • O ye gods, ye who ferry over on the wing of Thot
    • to yonder side of the Winding Watercourse, to the eastern side of heaven,
    • to speak with Set about that eye of Horus,
    • may N. ferry over with you on the wing of Thot
    • to yonder side of the Winding Watercourse, to the eastern side of heaven,
    • that he, N., may speak with Set about that eye of Horus.

    • N. is in search of the eye of Horus which is injured.

  • Utterance 364.
    • To say: O Osiris N., arise.
    • Horus comes; he reclaims thee from the gods. Horus has loved thee,
    • he has equipped thee with his eye; Horus has adapted to thee his eye.
    • Horus has opened for thee thine eye that thou mayest see with it.
    • The gods have bound to thee thy face; they have loved thee.
    • Isis and Nephthys have healed thee.
    • Horus is not far from thee; thou art his ka.
    • Thy face is gracious unto him; hasten, accept the word of Horus and be satisfied with it.
    • Hearken unto Horus, it will not be harmful to thee; he has caused the gods to follow thee.
    • Osiris N., awake. Geb has brought Horus to thee, and he recognizes thee;
    • Horus has found thee; he rejoices over thee.
    • Horus has caused the gods to ascend to thee; he has given them to thee that they may illuminate thy face (cheer thee).
    • Horus has placed thee at the head of the gods; he has caused thee to take the wrr.t-crown, the lady.
    • Horus has accustomed himself to thee; he cannot part from thee.
    • Horus has caused thee to live in this thy name of ‘nd.ti.
    • Horus has given thee his eye, the hard (one);
    • (he) has placed it to thee (i.e. in thy hand), that thou mayest be strong, and that all thine enemies may fear thee.
    • Horus has completely filled thee with his eye, in this its name of "Fullness of god."
    • Horus has corralled the gods for thee,
    • so that they cannot get away from thee, from the place where thou hast gone.
    • Horus has counted the gods for thee,
    • so that they cannot get away from thee, from the place where thou wast drowned.

    • Horus has united for thee thy limbs and does not allow thee to be sick;
    • he has put thee together, so that there is no disorder in thee (or, without anything being disordered in thee).
    • Horus has set thee up without staggering.
    • O Osiris N., let thy heart be glad for him (Horus); thy heart is great, thy mouth is opened.
    • Horus has avenged thee; it was not long till he avenged thee.
    • O Osiris N., thou art the mightiest god; there is no god like thee.
    • Horus has given to thee his children, that they may carry thee;
    • he has given to thee all gods that they may follow thee and that thou mayest have power over them.
    • Horus has set thee up, in his name of "H.nw-boat"
    • he carries thee, in thy name of "Seker."

  • Utterance 366.
    • Thy sister comes to thee, rejoicing for love of thee.
    • Thou hast placed her on thy phallus,
    • that thy seed may go into her, (while) it is pointed like Sothis.
    • Horus the pointed has come forth from thee as Horus who was in Sothis.
    • Thou art pleased with him, in his name of "Spirit who was in the Dndr.w-boat";
    • he avenges thee, in his name of "Horus, the son, who avenges his father."

  • Utterance 369.
    • To say: O Osiris N., stand up. Horus has caused thee to stand up.
    • Geb has caused Horus to see his father in thee, in thy name of "He of the royal castle."
    • Horus has given the gods to thee; he has brought them to thee, so that they may illuminate thy face.
    • Horus has given his eye to thee, that thou mayest see with it.
    • Horus has placed thine enemy under thee,
    • that he may carry thee, that thou be not far from him,
    • and that thou mayest come (again) in thy (former) state. The gods have bound (again) thy face to thee.
    • Horus has opened thine eye for thee, that thou mayest see with it, in her (the eye) name of "Opener of the way."
    • Thine enemy is smitten by the children of Horus; they made his smiting red (bloody);
    • they have punished him; he is severely punished, so that his smell is evil.
    • Horus has fitted thy mouth to thee; he has adjusted for thee thy mouth to thy bones.
    • Horus has opened thy mouth for thee;
    • thy beloved son has re-instated thy two eyes for thee.
    • Horus does not permit thy face to be without the power to see,
    • in thy name of "Horus chief of his subjects."

  • Utterance 371.
    • To say: O Osiris N., Horus has placed thee in the heart of the gods;
    • he has caused thee to take the white crown, the lady.
    • Horus has found thee; he rejoices over thee.
    • Go forth against thine enemy; thou art greater than he, in thy name of "He of the great house, the ’itr.t-palace."
    • Horus has caused him to carry thee, in thy name of "Great carried one."
    • He has delivered thee from thine enemy.
    • He has avenged thee, as "He who is avenged in his time."
    • Geb has seen thy character; he has put thee in thy place.
    • Horus has stretched thine enemy under thee; thou art older than he, for thou wast born before him.
    • Thou art the father of Horus, who begat him, in thy name of "Bird-begetter."
    • The heart of Horus is glad because of thee, in thy name of "First of the Westerners."

  • Utterances 372.
    • To say: O Osiris N., awake.
    • Horus has caused Thot to bring thine enemy to thee;
    • he has placed thee upon his back, so that he dare not resist thee.

    • Horus has loosed the hips (legs) of thine enemies;
    • Horus has brought them to thee, cut up.
    • Horus has chased their ka from them.
    • (So then) thou mayest be powerful by means of that which thy heart will do to them, in thy name of "Powerful over the sea" (as bull god).

  • Utterance 378.
    • To say: The uraeus-serpent belongs to heaven; the centipede of Horus belongs in the earth.
    • It is the sandal (or, sole of the foot) of Horus which has trod upon the (dangerous) serpent,
    • the serpent (dangerous) for Horus, a young child, his finger in his mouth.
    • N. is also a Horus, a little child, his finger in his mouth.

  • Utterance 468.
    • that thou mayest sit, N., at the head of the Ennead,
    • like Geb, the hereditary prince of the gods, like Osiris at the head of the mighty ones, as Horus lord of men and gods.

  • Utterance 473.
    • To say: The two reed-floats of heaven are placed by the morning-boat for Re,
    • that Re may ferry over on them to Horus who inhabits the horizon, to the horizon.
    • The two reed-floats of heaven are placed by the evening-boat for Horus who inhabits the horizon,
    • that Horus who inhabits the horizon may ferry over on them to Re, to the horizon.
    • The two reed-floats of heaven are caused to descend for N. by the morning-boat,
    • that N. may mount on them to Re, to the horizon.
    • The two reed-floats of heaven are caused to descend for N. by the evening-boat,
    • that N. may mount on them to Horus, who inhabits the horizon, to the horizon.
    • N. mounts on high on this eastern side of heaven where the gods are born;
    • N. will be born (anew there) like Horus, like him of the horizon.

  • Utterance 478.
    • Horus comes, his lion-helmet on his head; his face he turns towards his father, Geb.
    • N. is thy son, N. is Horus.

    • as Horus rejoiced at the approach of his eye,
    • after his eye was given (back) to him in the presence of his father, Geb.

  • Utterance 479.
    • To say: The double doors of heaven are open; the double doors of k.bh..w are open for Horus of the gods,
    • that he may ascend at daybreak and purify himself in the Marsh of Reeds.
    • (repeat for Horus of the East, Horus of the Šsm.t-land, Osiris, and N.)

  • Utterance 486.
    • N. was born in Nun,
    • when the sky had not yet come into being, when the earth had not yet come into being,
    • when the two supports (of the sky) had not yet come into being, when unrest had not yet come into being,
    • when fear had not yet come into being, which came into being on account of the eye of Horus.

  • Utterance 488.
    • To say: O N., (free) course is given to thee by Horus;
    • thou art adorned as the only (unique) star in the sky.
    • Thy two wings are grown as (those of) a falcon; great of breast
    • like the gnh.sw-falcon, whose descent was seen, after he had traversed the sky.
    • Thou voyagest the k.bh.w by the watercourse of Re-Harachte.

  • Utterance 519.
    • O morning star, Horus of the Duat, the divine falcon, the great green

    • for the great Isis, who fastened on the girdle in Chemmis,
    • when she brought her garment and burned incense before her son, Horus, the young child,
    • when he was journeying through the land in his two white sandals,
    • and went to see his father, Osiris.

    • N. stands; he has taken (his) venerableness in thy presence,
    • like Horus who took the house (heritage) of his father from the brother of his father, Set, in the presence of Geb.

  • Utterance 536.
    • Thou art pure with thy four nms.t-jars and thy four ’?b.t-jars,
    • which come for thee out of thy chapel of natron, which were filled for thee in the natron lake,
    • and which Horus of Nekhen has given thee.
    • He has given to thee his spirits, the jackals,
    • like (to) Horus who is in his house, like (to) H(nti (Osiris) chief of the mighty.
    • A durable offering is made for thee.
    • Anubis, chief of the sh-ntr, has commanded that thou come in as a star, as god of the morning (or, as god of the morning star),
    • that thou pass through the region of Horus of the South and that thou pass through the region of Horus of the North.

  • Utterance 537.
    • Thou ascendest like Horus of the Duat, chief of the imperishable stars;

  • Utterance 570.
    • by command of Horus, hereditary prince and king of the gods.

  • Utt. 573
    • Awake in peace, O Pure One, in peace!
    • Awake in peace, Horus of-the-East, in peace!
    • Awake in peace, Soul-of-the-East, in peace!
    • Awake in peace, Horus-of-Lightland, in peace!
    • You lie down in the Night-bark, You awake in the Day-bark,
    • For you are he who gazes on the gods, There is no god who gazes on you!

  • Utterance 576
    • N. is thy seed, Osiris, the pointed,
    • in his name of "Horus in the great green"; "Horus chief of spirits."

    • N. is thy seed, O Re-‘, the pointed,
    • in his name of "Horus, chief of spirits, star which ferries over the "great green."

  • Utterance 587.
    • Greetings to thee, eye of Horus, which he adorned with his two hands completely.
    • He does not make thee hearken to the West/East/South/North;
    • he does not make thee hearken to those who are in the middle of the land;
    • (but) thou harkenest to Horus.
    • It is he who adorned thee; it is he who built thee; it is he who settled thee;
    • thou doest for him everything which he says unto thee, in every place whither he goes.
    • Thou carriest to him the fowl-bearing waters which are in thee;
    • thou carriest to him the fowl-bearing waters which are to be in thee;
    • thou carriest to him the gifts/every tree/food/everything (which is/which is to be) in thee;
    • thou carriest (it) to him to every place wherein his heart desires to be.
    • The doors stand fast upon thee like Inmutef;
    • they open not to the West; they open not to the East;
    • they open not to the North; they open not to the South;
    • they open not to those who are in the middle of the land;
    • (but) they are open to Horus. It was, he who made them; it was he who made them stand fast;
    • it was he who rescued them from every evil which Set did to them;
    • it was he who settled thee, in this thy name of "Settlements" ("Colonies");
    • it was he who went, doing obeisance; after thee, in this thy name of "City";
    • it was he who rescued thee from every evil which Set did to thee.

  • Utterance 593
    • Isis comes to thee rejoicing for love of thee;
    • thy semen goes into her, while it is pointed like Sothis.
    • Horus the pointed has come forth from thee, in his name of "Horus who was in Sothis."
    • Thou art pleased with him, in his name of "Spirit who was in the dndr.w-boat";
    • Horus has avenged thee, in his name of "Horus, the son, who avenges his father."

  • Utterance 601
    • As the name of Horus endures, in Buto,
    • so may the name of N. endure,

  • Utterance 615.
    • To say: The eye of Horus is mounted (or, is placed upon) the wing of his brother Set.

  • Utterance 635.
    • To say: Osiris N., I have brought thee the eye of Horus which was in T?i.t,
    • this Rn(n)-wt.t, of whom the gods have fear.
    • The gods fear thee as they have fear of Horus.
    • Osiris N., Horus has put his eye in thy forehead, in its name of "Great-in-charms," (and so),
    • Osiris N., thou shalt dawn as king of Upper and Lower Egypt.

  • Utterance 676
    • Thy spirits, the jackals, are given thee which Horus of Hierakonpolis has given to thee

  • Utterance 683.
    • N. is intact; N. is intact; (as true as) the eye of Horus is intact in Heliopolis;
    • N. lives; N. lives; (as true as) the eye of Horus lives in Heliopolis."

  • Utterance 686.
    • To say: Horus has ointment; Set has ointment.
    • Horus has taken his eye; he has taken it away from his enemies,
    • without Set being a gainer thereby.
    • Horus fills himself with ointment;
    • Horus is satisfied with his eye; Horus is furnished with his s'w.t-plant (?).
    • The eye of Horus is united with him; its perfume belongs to him.
    • Its anger falls upon his enemies.

  • Utterance 688.
    • To say: These four grandsons stand up for N.,
    • ’Ims.ti, H.?pi, Dw?-mu.t.f, K.bh.-s'n.w.f,
    • the offspring of Horus of Letopolis.

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