e
praise thy Souls,* inasmuch as thou hast created us. Thou workest for us
thy children,* we adore thee because thou restest among us."*

XVIII. Homage to thee, O maker of everything that is.* Lord of Truth,
father of the gods,* maker of men, creator of animals,* lord of the
divine grain, making to live the wild animals of the mountains.* Amen,
Bull, Beautiful Face,* Beloved one in the Apts,* great one of diadems in
the House of the Benben Stone,* binding on the tiara in Anu (On),*
judge of the Two Men (_i.e._ Horus and Set) in the Great Hall.*

XIX. Chief of the Great Company of the gods,* One only, who hath no
second,* President of the Apts,* Ani, President of his Company of the
gods,* living by Truth every day,* Khuti, Horus of the East.* He hath
created the mountains, the gold* [and] the real lapis-lazuli by his
will,* the incense and the natron that are mixed by the Nubians,* and
fresh myrrh for thy nostrils.* Beautiful Face, coming from the Nubians,*
Amen-Ra, lord of the throne of Egypt,* President of the Apts,* Ani,
President of his palace.*

XX. King, One among the gods.* [His] names are so many, how many cannot
be known.* He riseth in the eastern horizon, he setteth in the western
horizon.*

XXI. He overthroweth his enemies at dawn, when he is born each day.*
Thoth exalteth his two eyes.* When he setteth in his splendour the gods
rejoice in his beauties,* and the Apes _(i.e._ dawn spirits) exalt him.*
Lord of the Sektet Boat and of the Antet Boat,* they transport thee
[over] Nu in peace.* Thy sailors rejoice* when they see thee
overthrowing the Seba fiend,* [and] stabbing his limbs with the knife.*
The flame devoureth him, his soul is torn out of his body,* the feet (?)
of this serpent Nak are carried off.*

XXII. The gods rejoice, the sailors of Ra are satisfied.* Anu
rejoiceth,* the enemies of Temu are overthrown.* The Apts are in peace.*
The heart of the goddess Nebt-ankh is happy,* [for] the enemies of her
Lord are overthrown.* The gods of Kher-aha make adorations [to him].*
Those who are in their hidden shrines smell the earth before him,* when
they see him mighty in his power.*

XXIII. [O] Power of the gods,* [lord of] Truth, lord of the Apts,* in
thy name of "Maker of Truth."* Lord of food, bull of offerings,* in thy
name of "Amen-Ka-mutef,"* Maker of human beings,* maker to be of ...,
creator of everything that is* in thy name of "Temu Khepera."*

XXIV. Great Hawk, making the body festal.* Beaut