Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PREFACE xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxii
5. Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun 1
6. The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor 8
7. ‘‘Why, just now, must you question your heart’’ 18
8. ‘‘I love you through the daytimes’’ 19
9. ‘‘My love is one and only,’’ lines 1–10 20
10. ‘‘Love, how I’d love to slip down to the pond’’ 23
11. ‘‘Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals’’ 24
12. ‘‘I think I’ll go home and lie very still’’ 25
13. Songs of the Birdcatcher’s Daughter, I–VIII 26
14. The Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to School The Satire on the Trades 32
15. Longing for Memphis 44
16. ‘‘Oh, I’m bound downstream on the Memphis Ferry’’ 46
17. Rebuke Addressed to a Dissipated Scribe 48
18. Menna’s Lament Or Letter to aWayward Son 51
19. The Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His Soul 55
20. The Resurrection of King Unis 64
21. Prayer to the King to Rise Up 71
22. Hymn to the King as a Primordial God 72
23. Hymn to the King as a Flash of Lightning 74
24. Prayer of the King as a Star Fading in the Dawn 75
25. The Prophecy of Neferty 76
26. The Testament of Amenemhat 85
27. Two Spells 89
28. Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow After 90
29. Power from the Four Winds of Heaven 91
30. The Greatness of the King 94
31. Prayer of King Ramesses II 96
32. For a Portrait of the Queen 100
33. Hymn to Osiris 102
34. Hymn to the Nile 110
35. Hymn to the Rising Sun 118
36. In Praise of Amun 120
37. Lament to Amun 122
38. Lament to Amun 124
39. From The Leiden Hymns 149
40. The Nature of the Beyond 169
41. From the Tomb of King Intef 179
42. The Harper’s Song for Inherkhawy 181
43. From The Eloquent Peasant 183
44. The Peasant’s Eighth Complaint 184
45. From The Maxims of Ptahhotep 186
46. The Instruction for Merikarê 191
47. The Wisdom of Amenemopet 206
48. Epilogue: The Immortality of Writers 226
49. CHRONOLOGY 231
50. GLOSSARY 233
51. LIST OF HIEROGLYPHIC PASSAGES 254
52. SOURCES OF THE TEXTS 255
53. BIBLIOGRAPHY 261