Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot

@egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social

500 followers 0 following 1.6K posts

Posting ancient Egyptian text translations that can be coaxed gently into fitting into limited space. Powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com. Run by @kiyanicoll.bsky.social.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

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.

3 22

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

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 · 6h

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

1 3

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

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)

2 7

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

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 · 18h

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)

4 9

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

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

1 6

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

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)

4 14

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

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)

9 21

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

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

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

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

1 9

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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)

2 4

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

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)

1 3

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

When you speak, nonsense comes out of your mouth; if you fall down and your limb breaks, no one will give you help. (Instruction of Anii about drunkenness) (WWO)

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

Sailing among them I have come, I am crowned, I am glorious, I am mighty, I am strong among the gods. (BDB)

2 5

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

The voice goes forth, and the earth is inundated with silence, for the Sole One came into existence in the sky before the plains and the mountains existed. (BDF)

2 9

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

I am Re who is with the gods and I will not perish. (BDF)

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

The wine is for your throat, O Noble One, Mistress. May your limbs rejoice by means of it. (WWO)

1 1 9

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

O Geb, Bull of the sky, I am Horus, my father's heir. I have gone and returned, the fourth of these four gods who have brought water, who have administered purification, who have rejoiced in the strength of their fathers. (PTF)

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

Likewise are presented iw3-beef, wnḏw-beef, birds. They are fattened for the altars of He-of-the-dappled-plumages, to permeate his residence with their fragrance, to fill for him the altar with wine and šdḥ-drink, to present to him oil,... (WWO)

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

Ra lives, the criminal serpent dies. (BDQ)

1 7

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

Take to yourself the Eye of Horus which has been freed from Seth! You shall take (it) to your mouth, you shall open your mouth with it. (WWO)

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

I was one worthy --- One beloved of his father, praised by his mother, whom all his brothers loved. (Autobiography of Harkuf) (ALL)

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

Do bring Teti milk of Isis, flowing water from Nephthys, flood of the lake, surge of the sea, life, prosperity, health, and joy, bread, beer, and clothing, things on which Teti may live! (Pyramid Texts) (ALL)

1 7