Spell 15: Worship of Re when he rises in the horizon until the occurrence of his setting in life Hail to you, O Re, at your rising, O Atum-Horakhty! Your beauty is worshipped in my eyes when the sunshine comes into being over my breast. You proceed at your pleasure in the Night-bark, your heart is joyful with a fair wind in the Day-bark, being happy at crossing the sky with the blessed ones. All your foes are overthrown, the Unwearying Stars acclaim you, the Imperishable Stars worship you when you set in the horizon of Manu, being happy at all times, and living and enduring as my lord. Hail to you, O Re when you rise and Atum when you set. How beautiful are your rising and your shining on the back of your mother Nut, you having appeared as King of the Gods. The Lower Sky has greeted you, Justice embraces you at all times. You traverse the sky happily, and the Lake of the Two Knives is in contentment. The rebel has fallen, his arms are bound, has severed his spine, but Re will have a fair wind, for the Night-bark has destroyed those who would attack him. The southerners, northerners, westerners and easterners tow you because of the praise of you, O primeval god, whose images have come into being. The voice goes forth, and the earth is inundated with silence, for the Sole One came into existence in the sky before the plains and the mountains existed. The Herdsman, the Sole Lord, who made whatever exists, he has fashioned the tongue of the Ennead. O you who took what is in the waters, you issue thence on to the bank of the Lake of Horus. I breathe the air which comes out of your nose, the north wind which comes forth from your mother. You glorify my spirit, you make the Osiris my soul divine. I worship you; be content, O Lord of the Gods, for you are exalted in your firmament, and your rays over my breast are like the day. (A hymn to Osiris) Worship of Osiris, Lord of Eternity, Wennefer. Horakhty multiple of forms and great of shapes, Ptah-Sokar, Atum in Heliopolis, Lord of the Shetyt-shrine, who enriches Memphis; these are the gods who govern the Netherworld; they protect you when you go to rest in the Lower Sky. Isis embraces you in peace and drives away the adversary from your path. Turn your face to the West that you may illumine the Two Lands with fine gold. Those who were asleep stand up to look at you; they breathe the air, they see your face like the shining of the sun-disc in its horizon, their hearts are at peace because of what you have done, for to you belong eternity and everlasting. (An address to Osiris in various aspects) Hail to you, Starry One in Heliopolis; Sun-folk in Kheraha; Wenti more powerful than the gods; Mysterious One in Heliopolis. Hail to you, Heliopolitan in Iun-des; Great One; Horakhty the Far-Strider when he crosses the sky: he is Horakhty. Hail to you, Ram or Eternity, Ram who is Mendes, Wennefer son of Nut: he is Lord of the Silent Land. Hail to you, in your rule of Busiris, the Wereret-crown is firm on your head: you are the Sole One who makes his own protection, and you rest in Busiris. Hail to you, Lord of the naret-tree; Sokar is placed on his sledge, the rebel who did evil is driven off, and the Sacred Eye is set at rest in its place. Hail to you, strong in your power, the great and mighty one who presides over Naref, Lord of Eternity, maker of everlastingness: you are Lord of Heracleopolis. Hail to you, who are pleased with justice: you are Lord of Abydos, and your flesh has enriched the Sacred Land; you are he who detests falsehood. Hail to you, occupant of the Sacred Bark, who brings the Nile from its cavern, over whose corpse the sun has shone; you are he who is Nekhen. Hail to you who made the gods, the vindicated King of Upper and Lower Egypt Osiris, who founded the Two Lands with his potent deeds: you are Lord of the Two Banks. May you give me a path that I may pass in peace, for I am straightforward and true; I have not wittingly told lies, I have not committed a second fault. (Another Hymn to the Sun) Worship of Re when he rises in the eastern horizon of the sky, when those who are in his following are joyful. O Sun-disc, Lord of the sunbeams, who shines forth from the horizon every day: may you shine in the face of N, for he worships you in the morning, he propitiates you in the evening. May the soul of N go up with you to the sky, may he travel in the Day-bark, may he moor in the Night-bark, may he mix with the Unwearying Stars in the sky. The Osiris N says when he honours his lord, the Lord of Eternity: Hail to you, Horakhty, Khepri the self-created! How beautiful is your shining forth from the horizon when you illumine the Two Lands with your rays! All the gods are in joy when they see you as king of the sky, the royal serpent being firm on your head and the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt on your brow. Thoth is established in the bow of your Sacred Bark, destroying all your foes, while those who are in the Netherworld have come out to meet you and to see this beautiful image. I have come to you and I am with you in order to see your disc every day; I will not be restrained or repulsed, but my flesh will be renewed at seeing your beauty, like all those whom you favour, for I was one of those who were well esteemed by you on earth. I have arrived at the land of eternity, I have joined myself to the land of everlasting, and it is you who commanded it for me, O my lord. Hail to you when you rise in your horizon as Re who is pleased with justice; when you cross the sky, all men see you, after your movements have been hidden from their sight. You display yourself from morning till evening on the day when celestial navigation with Your Majesty is successful; your rays are in men's faces, and fine gold does not know them, pigment does not report them when you illumine the lands of the gods, and it has not been seen in writing; the mountains of Punt disclose Him who was hidden. You did it alone when N's mouth was opened, and your shape was upon the primeval waters. He will travel just as you travel, and there will be no ceasing for him as for Your Majesty, not even for a little day, for you have passed through seasons of millions and hundreds of thousands of moments; when you have spent them you have gone to rest, you have also completed the hours of the night, and you have regulated and completed them according to your regular custom. The land becomes bright when you reveal yourself in your place as Re when he arises in the horizon. The Osiris N says when he worships you at your shining, and speaks to you when you rise early to set your shape on high: You appear in glory in magnifying your beauty, creating yourself; you mould your own flesh. One who fashions but is not fashioned, as Re who shines in the sky. May you permit me to reach the eternal sky, the country of the favoured; may I join with the august and noble spirits of the realm of the dead; may I ascend with them to see your beauty when you shine in the evening. Your mother traverses for you the Lower Sky when you are placed in the West, and my arms are upraised in adoration at your setting, for you are he who made eternity. I worship you when you set in the Abyss, and I set you in my heart which is not inert, O you who are more divine than the gods. Praise to you who rise in gold and who illumine the Two Lands by day at your birth! Your mother Nut has borne you on her hand, and what the sun-disc encircles is bright because of you. Great Illuminator who shines forth from the Abyss, who knits his family together in the waters, who makes festal all estates, towns and households, who protects with his goodness, may your spirit be sustained with food and provisions. Greatly feared, Power of Powers, whose throne is far from the evil-doers; greatly majestic in the Night-bark, mightily long-lasting in the Day-bark, may you glorify N in the realm of the dead, may you cause him to endure in the West, he being devoid of evil. May you ignore my wrong-doing and may you set me as one honoured with the spirits; may you protect my soul in the Sacred Land, may it navigate in the Field of Rushes, because I have passed on in joy. THE GOD REPLIES: You shall ascend to the sky, you shall traverse the firmament, you shall associate with the stars, who shall make acclamation to you in the Sacred Bark. You shall be summoned into the Day-bark, you shall see Re within his shrine, you shall propitiate his disc daily, you shall see the bulti-fish in its shape in the stream of turquoise, you shall see the abdju-fish in being, the serpent of evil having fallen according as was foretold for him, the sharp knives having cut his spine apart for me. Re shall sail with a fair wind, and the Night-bark shall be wiped clean for me. The crew of Re shall reach him with joy, and the Lady of Life will be happy when the hostile serpent has fallen to her lord. You shall see Horus whose face is kindly, with the standards of Thoth and Maat on his hands; all the gods will be in joy when they see Re coming in peace to vivify the hearts of the spirits, and the vindicated Osiris N shall be with them.