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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · Jan 31

Okay, because I don't know how to replicate this otherwise, I'm making a thread with the attribution codes for the quotes and pinning it. These are the books that I drew the passages from that are in the file, so if you want to look 'em up yourself you can find them.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2h

Your face shines more than the Temple of the Moon. Your upper part is of lapis-lazuli, and your hair is blacker than the approach of the underworld. The night-dark of your hair is starred with the lapis at your face. (BDQ)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 6h

My forms are the forms of Khepri, herbs of Atum, herbs of Atum. (BDQ)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 10h

Great Illuminator who shines forth from the Abyss, who knits his family together in the waters, who makes festal all estates, towns, and households, may your spirit be sustained with food and provisions. (BDF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 14h

The blue-eyed Horus comes against you, beware of the red-eyed Horus, violent of power, whose might none can withstand! His messengers go, his couriers run, they bear tidings to Him whose arm is raised in the East of the going of this One in you. (PTF)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 18h

Take this god in the middle of his lake, the beautiful golden lotus, whose petals are lapis lazuli, who is enriched with precious stones; he is similar to the one who has emerged from the Great Lake. (OGC)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 22h

The inundation rejoices at the vines in it; they bear fruit with more grapes than sand. They are made into wine for your storage. May your mouth be opened with it; may you be powerful through it; may you drink it. It is pure. (WWO)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

Take the vase filled with myrrh, sweet is the venerable ointment of the laboratory; the oil is for the flesh. (OGC)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

I present the divine scarab, it protects your body from evil, it is the reprsentation of your ka in your appearance as Khepri who emerges from the nun and rises to the sky. (OGC)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

I am the lord of light. (BDB)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

He is Re, the eldest of the gods; his mother has suckled him, she has given to him a nurse who is in the horizon. (BDF)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

I am Atum at the head of the Abyss, my protection is from the gods, the lords of eternity, I am He whose name is secret, more holy of throne than the Chaos-gods. (BDF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 1d

I was excellent in his majesty's heart; I was rooted in his majesty's heart; his majesty's heart was filled with me. (Autobiography of Weni) (ALL)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

The beetle flies towards your nostrils, it makes the perfume of the chapel of Memphis. (OGC)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

A boon which Anubis, Foremost of the Westerners, grants! Your thousand of bread, your thousand of beer, your thousand of ointment, your thousand of alabaster, your thousand of clothing, your thousand of cattle! (PTF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

Hail to you, you lords of pure offerings, whose thrones are secret! Hail to you, you lords of eternity, whose forms are hidden, whose shrines are secret, whose place is unknown! (BDF)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

The messenger of Horus loves me and has brought his eye; the mesenger of Seth loves me and has brought his testicles; the messenger of Thoth loves me and has brought his arm, and the Two Enneads have trembled at them. (PTF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

I am this pure lotus which went forth from the sunshine, which is at the nose of Re. (BDF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 2d

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

Follow your heart as long as you live, do no more than is required, do not shorten the time of 'follow-the-heart', trimming its moment offends the ka. (Instruction of Ptahhotep) (ALL)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

Behind Amon: All protection, life, stability, luck and health are behind him. (WWO)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

Golden of limbs, blue of head, emerald upon both of his sides. (BDB)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

It is well with me and my double, I live with my double, my panther-skin is on me, my sceptre is in my arm, my baton is in my hand, and I rule(?) for myself those who have gone to it. (PTF)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

O all you gods of the Soul-mansion who judge sky and earth in the balance, who give food and provisions, O Tatanen, Unique One, creator of mankind; O Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Ennads, give praise to Re, Lord of the Sky, the Sovereign who made the gods. (BDF)

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 3d

O you who are over the baked foods, O you who are concerned with the supplies of drink, the King is committed to Fetket the butler of Ra, for Ra himself has committed him to him, and Re commits to him who is over the catering for this year. (PTF)

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 4d

Assign me to the life of the pronouncement of the year. May it give many years to my years of life. May it give many days to my days of life. May it give many nights to my nights of life, until I go out, and rise at my likeness, with air at my nose. (BDQ)

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