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    General Thread 0 Featured July 21 , 2003

    Poetry, Prose, Texts and Scriptures of the Egyptians from the Old Kingdom to the Coptic Literature. ...
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    Famine Stela
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    Author: * Khnemu Mentuhotep - 1 Post on this thread out of 17 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 22, 2003 - 16:51

    When Kemet had a seven year drought, king Djoser's dream was to build neter Khnum a temple to stop the resulting famine. This stela tells about the king's dream.

    When I (Djoser) was asleep, my heart was in life and happiness. I found the god standing. I caused him pleasure by worshiping and adoring him. He made himself known to me and said,

    "I am Khnum, your creator, my arms are around you, to steady your body, to safeguard your limbs. I bestow on you ores with precious stones existing since antiquity that were not worked before to build temples, rebuild ruins, sculpt chapels for his master.

    I am master of creation. I have created myself, the great ocean which came into being in past times, according to whose pleasure the Nile rises. For I am the master who makes, I am he who makes himself, exalted in Nun, who first came forth, Hapi who hurries at will, fashioner of everybody, guide of each man to their hour.

    I am Tenen, father of Gods, the great Shou living on the shore. The two caves are in a trench below me. It is up to me to let loose the well. I know the Nile- urge him to the field. I urge him, (and) life appears in every nose.

    As one urges to the field, I will make the Nile swell for you, without there being a year of lack and exhaustion in the whole land, so the plants will flourish, bending under their fruit.

    Renenutet is in all things. Everything will be brought forth by the million, and everybody in whose granary there had been dearth-

    The land of Egypt is beginning to stir again, the shores are shining wonderfully, and wealth and well-being dwell with them, as it had been before."

    Then I (Djoser) awoke happy, my heart was decided and at ease. I decreed this order to the temple of my father Khnum. Royal sacrifice for Khnum-Ra, lord of the cataract, first of Nubia, as reward for what you favour me with. I make you a gift of your western shore by the mountain of the dusk and your eastern shore by the mountain of dawn, from Elephantine with twelve auroras on the eastern and western shores, with the plants, with the harbours with the river and with every settlement on these auroras.

    Famine Stela. Island of Setet (Sehel)


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