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This chapter is among the Formulae
for assuming the shape of a divine being animal, or bird. The following version
is from that found in Papyrus Cairo 2512, an Eighteenth Dynasty manuscript.
r n irt xprw m snty
in sxm ntt m kAw mdsw im tp.sn
Hnskt imy fkt.sn
iAw Axw spdw m Sat
di.f r tA Ts pXr in wsr.i nxt ir qA pt
twri.n.i ir wsx iw tA r niwt
grg
Sm.i spsw.i m wnw xAa nTrw
hr wAt.sn sn.n.i nw imyw kari.sn
n rx.i nwn n rx.i tA twy n
rx.n.i dSrt
sTA.n.i abw.sn rx.i HqAw sDm.i
mdw.f
ink mAiw ipn dSrw nty m timsw
Dd-mdw in nTrw xft iw.sn
r.f xr.i iw nhpw m-xmt.tn iw
xmt sAtn
iw spw m Xt.i
n Dd.i Hw n Dd.i isft m sfx
mAat iw min
Hp mAaty inHwy
xAw Xnty r.s Hb
sDr qr iAw sAw tA.s
Formula for taking the form
of a heron
It is the most powerful of
the bulls, sharpest upon them, the tress on their shavenness
Eldest of the blessed dead,
honed in slaughter
It attacks land, and vice versa,
it is my might that prevails to the height of the sky
I receive respect, achieving
broad pace arriving at land, at the city in founding (?)
I proceed, dishevelled in passing
the gods on their way, passing those in their chapels
I do not know Nun, I do not
know that land, I do not know the desert
I have drawn their purity,
I know Power, I hear his voice
I am that red lion who is in
blood-red
Words spoken by the gods at
their lament
Off before me, dawn is ignorant
of you, your guard is unknown,
There are spots in my body,
I said no excess, I said no
lie, in unleashing truth to today,
at the course of the true one
on my lashes
the night of sailing on the
festival
of resting, excellent of the
aged ones, protecting its land
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