eth food.* Praise be unto thee, creator of the gods.* Suspender of
the sky, who hammered out the earth.*

VII. Strong Watcher, Menu-Amen,* Lord of eternity, creator of
everlastingness,* Lord of praises, chief of the Apts (Karnak and Luxor),
firm of horns, beautiful of faces.*

VIII. Lord of the Urrt Crown, with lofty plumes,* Whose diadem is
beautiful, whose White Crown is high.* Mehen and the Uatchti serpents
belong to his face.* His apparel (?) is in the Great House,* the double
crown, the _nemes_ bandlet, and the helmet.* Beautiful of face, he
receiveth the Atef crown.* Beloved of the South and North.* Master of
the double crown he receiveth the _ames_ sceptre.* He is the Lord of the
Mekes sceptre and the whip.*

IX. Beautiful Governor, crowned with the White Crown,* Lord of light,
creator of splendour,* The gods ascribe to him praises.* He giveth his
hand to him that loveth him.* The flame destroyeth his enemies.* His eye
overthroweth the Seba devil.* It casteth forth its spear, which pierceth
the sky, and maketh Nak to vomit (?) what it hath swallowed.*

X. Homage to thee, Ra, Lord of Truth.* Hidden is the shrine of the Lord
of the gods.* Khepera in his boat* giveth the order, and the gods come
into being.* [He is] Tem, maker of the Rekhit beings,* however many be
their forms he maketh them to live,* distinguishing one kind from
another.*

XI. He heareth the cry of him that is oppressed.* He is gracious of
heart to him that appealeth to him.* He delivereth the timid man from
the man of violence.* He regardeth the poor man and considereth [his]
misery.*

XII. He is the lord Sa (_i.e._ Taste); abundance is his utterance.* The
Nile cometh at his will.* He is the lord of graciousness, who is greatly
beloved.* He cometh and sustaineth mankind.* He setteth in motion
everything that is made.* He worketh in the Celestial Water,* making to
be the pleasantness of the light.* The gods rejoice in [his] beauties,*
and their hearts live when they see him.*

XIII. He is Ra who is worshipped in the Apts.* He is the one of many
crowns in the House of the Benben[1] Stone.* He is the god Ani, the lord
of the ninth-day festival.* The festival of the sixth day and the Tenat
festival are kept for him.* He is KING, life, strength, and health be to
him! and the Lord of all the gods.* He maketh himself to be seen in the
horizon,* Chief of the beings of the Other World.* His name is hidden
from the gods who are his children,* in his