Time

Time and the Sage

Righteousness has existed since the time of our ancestors,

justice came down from Heaven and united those on Earth.

It was a time of plenty,

the winds were mild and in the Two Lands famine was unknown.

In the days of the ancient gods the walls did not crumble and fall and the thorn did not prick.

Urkunden VIII, 90

Neither worry about, nor rejoice in, the future.

Stories of the Oases

Do not prepare today for tomorrow before it is there.

In the eyes of God isn’t yesterday the same as today?

Černy and Gardiner, Hieratic Ostraca

Yesterday belongs to me and I know the future.

Texts of the Sarcophagi, Ch.335

This world will return to the primordial ocean,

to the infinity that was its original state.

The main creator will dwell with Osiris

after taking the form of another serpent

that men will not know and the Gods do not see.

The Book of Leaving the Day, Ch.175

I am the Eternal One,

I am the divine light which came out of the primordial energy in my role as Creator.

Ba, my spirit, is divine.

I am He who created the Word.

I am reborn each day,

My life is eternity.

Texts of the Sarcophagi, Ch.307

A single day can last eternity.

Merikare

The male eternity and the female eternity are the sum of existence.

The first is the day, the second is the night.

Texts of the Sarcophagi, Ch.335

May my reward be a wonderful place in Heaven,

so that I may spring out of the Earth as a spirit bird to look upon the Master of the Gods.

Chester Beatty IV Papyrus

O you living beings on the Earth who pass before my tomb,

Whether you travel upstream or down,

Say these words:

May offerings of thousands of loaves and pitchers of beer be made to he

Who dwells here.

Thus I shall live eternally in the sacred earth.

Tomb of Hirkhuf at Aswan

There is no place for the rebel in Heaven.

Stele at Cairo 20538

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