第20図：善き存在ウンネフェルへの賛歌（承前）

Khepera the self-created; when thou risest on the horizon and (8) sheddest thy beams of light upon the lands of the North and the South thou art beautiful, yea beautiful, and all the gods rejoice when they behold thee, (9) the King of heaven. The goddess Nebt-Unnet is stablished upon thy head; her portions of the south and of the north are upon thy brow (10); she taketh her place before thee. The god Thoth is stablished in the bows of thy boat to destroy utterly all thy foes. (11) Those who dwell in the underworld come forth to meet thee, bowing in homage as they come towards thee, and to behold [thy] beautiful (12) Image. And I have come before thee that I may be with thee to behold thy Disk every day. May I not be shut in the tomb, may I not be turned back (13), may the limbs of my body be made new again when I view thy beauties, even as do all thy favoured ones, {14) because I am one of those who worshipped thee whilst they lived upon earth. May I come in unto the land of eternity, may I come even (15) unto the everlasting land, for behold, O my lord, this hast thou ordained for me." And lo, Osiris Ani, triumphant in peace, the triumphant one, saith (16) Homage to thee, O thou who risest in thy horizon as Ra, thou art stablished by a law which changeth not nor can it be altered. Thou passest over the sky, and every face watcheth thee (17) and thy course, for thou hast been hidden from their gaze. Thou dost show thyself at dawn and at eventide day by day. (18) The Sektet boat, wherein is thy majesty, goeth forth with might; thy beams shine upon [all] faces; [the number] of thy yellow rays cannot be known, nor can thy bright beams (19) be told. The lands of the gods, and the colours of the eastern lands of Punt, must be seen, ere that which is hidden (20) [in thee] may be measured [by man]. Alone and by thyself thou dost manifest thyself [when] thou comest into being above Nu. May Ani (21) advance, even as thou dost advance; may he never cease [to go forward], even as thy majesty ceaseth not [to go forward], even though it be for a moment; for with strides dost thou (22) in one little moment pass over the spaces which would need hundreds of thousands and millions of years [for man to pass over; this] thou doest, and then dost thou sink down. Thou (23) puttest an end to the hours of the night, and thou dost number them, even thou; thou endest them in thine own appointed season, and the earth becometh light. (24) Thou settest thyself before thy handiwork[1] in the likeness of Ra;[1] thou risest in the horizon."

ケペラ、自ら生まれし者よ。汝が地平に昇り、また(8)汝の光の光線を北と南の地々の上に注ぐとき、汝は麗し、まことに麗し、またすべての神々は汝を見るとき歓ぶ、(9)天の王よ。女神ネブト・ウンネトは汝の頭の上に据えらる。その南と北の部分は汝の額の上に(10)あり。彼女は汝の御前にその場を占む。神トトは、汝のすべての敵を全く滅ぼさんとて、汝の舟の舳先に据えらる。(11) 冥界に住む者どもは汝を迎えんとて出で来たり、汝に向かいて来たるとき敬礼して頭を下げ、〔汝の〕麗しき(12)御姿を見る。また我は汝の御前に来たれり、日ごとに汝とともにありて汝の円盤を見んがために。願わくは我、墓に閉じ込められざらんことを、願わくは我、追い返されざらんことを(13)、願わくは、我が汝の麗しさを見るとき、汝のすべての寵を受けたる者らのごとく、我が体の肢体が再び新たにされんことを、(14)そは我、彼らが地上に生きたりし間に汝を崇めたりし者どもの一人なればなり。願わくは我、永遠の地に入り来たり、願わくは我、(15)とこしえの地にさえも来たらんことを、そは見よ、おお我が主よ、これを汝は我のために定め給いたればなり。」また見よ、平安のうちに義認されたる者、義認されたる者オシリス・アニは言う、(16)「汝に敬礼す、おお、ラーとして汝の地平に昇り給う御方よ、汝は変わることなく、また改められ得ざる法によりて確立せらる。汝は天空を過ぎ行き、すべての顔は汝を見守る、(17)また汝の道行きを、そは汝がその眺めより隠されたればなり。汝は暁に、また夕べに、日ごとに自らを現し給う。(18) 汝の威光の宿るセケト舟は力をもて出で行く。汝の光線は〔すべての〕顔の上に輝く。汝の黄なる光線の〔数〕は知られ得ず、また汝の輝く光線も(19)語られ得ず。神々の地々、またプントの東方の地々の色は、汝の内に隠されたるもの(20)が〔人によりて〕測られ得るに先立ちて、見らるべし。ただ独り、自らによりて、汝はヌンの上に生じ来たる〔とき〕、自らを現し給う。願わくはアニも(21)汝の進み給うごとく進まんことを、願わくは彼、汝の威光の〔進むことを〕決してやめ給わざるごとく、たとい一瞬たりとも〔進むことを〕決してやめざらんことを。そは汝は大股にて、(22)ひとつの小さき瞬間のうちに、人にとりては数十万年また幾百万年を要すべき〔広がりを過ぎ行くには、この〕空間を過ぎ行き給い、しかして汝は沈み給えばなり。汝は(23)夜の時々に終わりを与え、汝はそれらを数え給う、まさに汝こそ。汝はそれらを、汝自らの定め給いし季節にて終わらしめ給い、地は光となる。(24) 汝は自らを、ラーの似姿における汝の御業[1]の御前に据え給う。[1] 汝は地平に昇り給う。」

Osiris, the scribe Ani, triumphant, declareth his (25) praise of thee when thou shinest, and when thou risest at dawn he crieth in his joy at thy birth: (26) "Thou art crowned with the majesty of thy beauties; thou mouldest thy limbs as thou dost advance, and thou bringest them forth without birth-pangs in the form of Ra (27), as thou dost climb up into the upper air. Grant thou that I may come unto the heaven which is everlasting, and unto the mountain [where dwell] thy favoured ones. (28) May I be joined unto those shining beings, holy and perfect, who are in the underworld; and may I come forth with them to behold thy beauties when thou shinest (29) at eventide and goest to thy mother Nut.

オシリス、書記アニ、義認されたる者は、汝が輝き給うとき、(25)汝への讃美を宣べ、また汝が暁に昇り給うとき、彼は汝の誕生を喜びて叫ぶ：(26)「汝は汝の麗しさの威光をもて冠せらる。汝は進み給うにつれて汝の肢体を形づくり、また汝はそれらを、産みの苦しみなくして、ラーの姿にて(27)生み出し給う、汝が上なる大気へと登り給うがごとくに。願わくは我、永遠なる天へと、また汝の寵を受けたる者らの〔住まう〕山へと来たることを得しめ給え。(28) 願わくは我、冥界にある聖にして完全なる輝く者どもと結ばれんことを。また願わくは我、汝が(29)夕べに輝きて汝の母ヌトのもとへ行き給うとき、彼らとともに出で来たりて汝の麗しさを見んことを。