I find it surprising that it is seemingly impossible to get a copy of the Pyramid Texts of Unas anywhere online. All the Amazon books are translations from Budge, Mercer and Allen.
Anybody have a link to these texts in original hieroglyphic form I can purchase online?
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
^ Unfortunately, I have the same problem as you in that almost all the texts I can find online are translations and not the originals. You'll have to look up special databases (the kinds used by Egyptologists) to get the texts in their original mdu-neter. I was recently recommended an Egyptology database some months back, so let me check if it has the original text.
Posted by Geometer (Member # 23746) on :
Do we have to pay to access these databases? It would be nice if someone could publish a verbatim copy in hieroglyphics.
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
^ I know you have to register an account to access them, and yes the more exclusive ones do require payments. When I get the time, I'll try to find that one database I mentioned.
Posted by Djehuti (Member # 6698) on :
Okay. The one recommended to me by an Egyptologist from South Africa is the University of Oxfords' Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB):
English translation Utterance 318 511: [Unas is the Nau-snake, the leading bull], who has swallowed his seven Uraei, and so his seven neck vertebrae came into being, he who gives orders to his seven Enneads who hear the word of the king (md.w jt.w).
512: Unas has come, he swallows myrrh (antjw). Unas takes myrrh, he wallows (anjj=f) in myrrh. The nails (ant) of Unas are of myrrh. Unas has taken your necks, O gods. Serve Unas so that he invests you with your Kas."
Utterance 319 513: To say the words: "Unas is the bull of double brilliance in the midst of his Eye. Safe is the mouth of Unas through the fiery breath, the head of Unas through the horns of the lord of the South. Unas leads the god. Unas rules over the Ennead. Unas lets the lapis lazuli (xsbD) grow (srwd), Unas causes the southern twn-plant to grow.
514: Unas has twisted the SmSm-plant into ropes. Unas has united (zmA) the heavens (pt.w). Unas rules over the lands (tA.w), the South and the North, (as) the god of those who were before. Unas has built a divine city as it should be. Unas is the third when he appears."
Utterance 320 515: To say the words: "Unas has regulated the night, Unas has sent the stars on their way. The Powers (sxm.w) appear, they honor Unas (with the title of) bAbjj. Unas is the son of her who did not know that she gave birth to Unas, for Powerful Face, the Lord of Nights.
516: Humble (?) yourselves, you lords, hide yourselves, o rekhyt-populace, before Unas. Unas is bAbjj, the Lord of the Night, The Bull of Apes (kA ian.w), who lives without knowing it."
Utterance 321 517: To say the words: "O you, whose back is on his back, bring to Unas the sfr.t of the offering-meal which is on the back of Osiris, so that Unas may ascend (prj) on it to heaven, so that Unas may serve as courtier/ guardian / protection (zA) to Re in the sky." Posted by Geometer (Member # 23746) on :
^ LOL at translations. You knew what the authors meant by the glyphs did you? 😇
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