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The Sacred Eye here indicates the dise of the moon

THE LAMENTATIONS OF ISIS AND NEPHTHYS

Thou dost illuminate us like Ra' each day.

Thou shinest upon us like Atum\

Gods and men live because they behold tbee.

Thou sheddest thy rays upon us.

Thou givest light to the Two Worlds.

The horizon is filled by thy passage.

Gods and men (turn) their faces towards thee ; nothing is injurious to them when thou shinest. Thou dost navigate in the height (of Heaven) and thine enemy no longer exists !

I am thy protection each day.

Thou who comest to us as a child each month, we do not cease to contemplate thee.

Thine émanation heightens the brilliancy of the stars of Orion in the firmanent, by rising and setting each day.

1 am the divine Sothis1 2 3 behind him.

I do not separate myself from him.

The glorious émanation which proceedeth from thee giveth life to gods and men, reptiles and quadrupeds.

They live by it.

Thou comest to us from thy retreat at thy time, to spread the water of thy soûl, to distribute the bread of thy being, that the gods may live and men also.

Hail to the divine Lord !

There is no god like unto thee !

Heaven hath thy soûl ; earth hath thy remains ;

the lower heaven is in possession of the mysteries. Thy spouse is a protection for thee.

Thy son Horus is the king of the worlds.

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