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- Praise of Re Har-akhti, Rejoicing on the Horizon, in His Name as Shu Who Is in the Aton-disc, living forever and ever; the living great Aton who is in jubilee, lord of all that the Aton encircles, lord of heaven, lord of earth, lord of the House of Aton in Akhet-Aton; (and praise of) the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, who lives on truth, the Lord of the Two Lands: Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re; the Son of Re, who lives on truth, the Lord of Diadems: Akh-en-Aton, long in his lifetime; (and praise of) the Chief Wife of the King, his beloved, the Lady of the Two Lands: Nefer-neferu-Aton Nefert-iti, living, healthy, and youthful forever and ever; (by) the Fan-Bearer on the Right Hand of the King ... Eye.
- He says: Thou appearest beautifully on the horizon of heaven,
- Thou living Aton, the beginning of life!
- When thou art risen on the eastern horizon,
- Thou hast filled every land with thy beauty.
- Thou art gracious, great, glistening, and high over every land;
- Thy rays encompass the lands to the limit of all that thou hast made:
- As thou art Re, thou reachest to the end of them;
- (Thou) subduest them (for) thy beloved son.
- Though thou art far away, thy rays are on earth;
- Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
- When thou settest in the western horizon,
- The land is in darkness, in the manner of death.
- They sleep in a room, with heads wrapped up,
- Nor sees one eye the other.
- All their goods which are under their heads might be stolen,
- (But) they would not perceive (it).
- Every lion is come forth from his den;
- All creeping things, they sting.
- Darkness is a shroud, and the earth is in stillness,
- For he who made them rests in his horizon.
- At daybreak, when thou arisest on the horizon,
- When thou shinest as the Aton by day,
- Thou drivest away the darkness and givest thy rays.
- The Two Lands are in festivity every day,
- Awake and standing upon (their) feet,
- For thou hast raised them up.
- Washing their bodies, taking (their) clothing,
- Their arms are (raised) in praise at thy appearance.
- All the world, they do their work.
- All beasts are content with their pasturage;
- Trees and plants are flourishing.
- The birds which fly from their nests,
- Their wings are (stretched out) in praise to thy ka.
- All beasts spring upon (their) feeet.
- Whatever flies and alights,
- They live when thou hast risen (for) them.
- The ships are sailing north and south as well,
- For every way is open at thy appearance.
- The fish in the river dart before thy face;
- Thy rays are in the midst of the great green sea.
- Creator of seed in women,
- Thou who makest fluid into man,
- Who maintainest the son in the womb of his mother,
- Who soothest him with that which stills his weeping,
- Thou nurse (even) in the womb,
- Who givest breath to sustain all that he has made!
- When he descends from the womb to breathe
- On the day when he is born,
- Thou openest his mouth completely,
- Thou suppliest his necessities.
- When the chick in the egg speaks within the shell,
- Thou givest him breath within it to maintain him.
- When thou hast made him his fulfillment within the egg, to break it,
- He comes forth from the egg to speak at his completed (time);
- He walks upon his legs when he comes forth from it.
- How manifold it is, what thou hast made!
- They are hidden from the face (of man).
- O sole god, like whom there is no other!
- Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,
- Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts,
- Whatever is on earth, going upon (its) feet,
- And what is on high, flying with its wings.
- The countries of Syria and Nubia, the land of Egypt,
- Thou settest every man in his place,
- Thou suppliest their necessities:
- Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.
- Their tongues are separate in speech,
- And their natures as well;
- Their skins are distinguished,
- As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.
- Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,
- Thou bringest forth as thou desirest
- To maintain the people (of Egypt)
- According as thou madest them for thyself,
- The lord of all of them, wearying (himself) with them,
- The lord of every land, rising for them,
- The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
- All distant foreign countries, thou makest their life (also),
- For thou hast set a Nile in heaven,
- That it may descend for them and make waves upon the mountains,
- Like the great green sea,
- To water their fields in their towns.
- How effective they are, thy plans, O lord of eternity!
- The Nile in heaven, it is for the foreign peoples
- And for the beasts of every desert that go upon (their) feet;
- (While the true) Nile comes from the underworld for Egypt.
- Thy rays suckle every meadow.
- When thou risest, they live, they grow for thee.
- Thou makest the seasons in order to rear all that thou hast made,
- The winter to cool them,
- And the heat that they may taste thee.
- Thou hast made the distant sky in order to rise therein,
- In order to see all that thou dost make.
- Whilst thou wert alone,
- Rising in thy form as the living Aton,
- Appearing, shining, withdrawing or aproaching,
- Thou madest millions of forms of thyself alone.
- Cities, towns, fields, road, and river --
- Every eye beholds thee over against them,
- For thou art the Aton of the day over the earth....
- Thou are in my heart,
- And there is no other that knows thee
- Save thy son Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re,
- For thou hast made him well-versed in thy plans and in thy strength.
- The world came into being by thy hand,
- According as thou hast made them.
- When thou hast risen they live,
- When thou settest they die.
- Thou art lifetime thy own self,
- For one lives (only) through thee.
- Eyes are (fixed) on beauty until thou settest.
- All work is laid aside when thou settest in the west.
- (But) when (thou) risest (again),
- [Everything is] made to flourish for the king,...
- Since thou didst found the earth
- And raise them up for thy son,
- Who came forth from thy body: the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, ... Ak-en-Aton, ... and the Chief Wife of the King ... Nefert-iti, living and youthful forever and ever.
- Read more: http://www.touregypt.net/hymntoaten.htm#ixzz3xGBsJk26
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