Pyramid Text Utterance 573 Pyramid of King Pepi I


Awake in peace, O pure one, in peace
Awake in peace, Horus of-the-East, in peace
Awake in peace, Soul of the East, in peace
Awake in peace, Horus of Lightland, in peace

You lie down in the night bark
You awake in the day bark
For you are he who gazes on the gods
There is no god who gazes on you

O father of Pepi, take Pepi with you
Living, to you mother Nut
Gates of sky, open for Pepi
Gates of heaven, open for Pepi
Pepi comes to you, make him live
Command that this Pepi sit beside you
Beside him who rises in lightland

O father of Pepi,
Command to the goddess beside you
To make wide Pepi's seat
At the stairway of heaven
Command the Living One,
The Son of Sothis,
To speak for this Pepi,
To establish for Pepi a seat in the sky
Commend this Pepi to the great noble,
The beloved of Ptah,
The Son of Ptah,
To speak for this Pepi,
To make flourish his jar-stands on earth,

For Pepi is one with these four gods:
Imsety,
Hapy,
Duamutef,
Kebhsenuf
Who live by Ma'at,
Who lean on their staffs
Who watch over Upper Egypt

He flies
He flies from you men as do ducks
He wrests his arms from you as a falcon
He tears himself from you as a kite
Pepi frees himself from the fetters of earth
Pepi is released from bondage!