The Coffin Texts of Ancient Egypt - Spell 6

Selected sources: B1P; B2Bo; B3Bo; B4Bo; B4C; B6C; B15C; S10C

How great is the monthly festival of "The height of heaven"⁽¹⁾

and the New Moon Festival⁽²⁾!

The finger is removed from upon you,
Your trembling is taken away,

because you have planted the feather at the horizon,

         at the place there where your acquaintances are.

You suckle at your mother Sothis⁽³⁾, your nurse

who is in the horizon,

Isis⁽⁴⁾ squats⁽⁵⁾ by you,
She makes you bright,
She makes for you fair ways of vindication

against your foes, male and female, etc.⁽⁶⁾, and

against those who would have judgement against you⁽⁷⁾ on this happy day.

Notes

1. Unknown festival.
2. psDn.tjw (Wb 1, 559.21-23).
3. The goddess representing the Sirius star (LGG VI, 292 ff.).
4. The mother of Horus and wife of Osiris.
5. pAg - "to squat" (Meeks, AL 78.1422; FCD 88; Van der Molen, Dictionary of Coffin Texts, 129).
6. Hmt-rA, written in B1P and B3Bo; several other texts omit this and add "who would harm your" or "who hate you"
7. B2Bo, B3Bo und B1P add m Xr.t-nTr - "in the hereafter".

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