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Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Aten Hymn

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception



The Lord's Prayer was penned thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt! Though not in English, of course.  As follows:

When thou settest in the western horizon of the sky,
The earth is in darkness like death.

Every lion cometh forth from his den,
All serpent, they sing.
Darkness broods,
The world is in silence,
He that made them resteth in his horizon.

Bright is the earth when thou riseth in the horizon;
When thou shinest as the Atten by day
Thou drivest away the darkness.
When thou sendest forth thy rays,
The Two Lands ate in daily festivity.

The barques sail upstream and downstream alike.
Every highway is open because thou dawnest.
The fish in the river leap up before thee.
The rays are in the midst of the great green sea.

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