Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys
The Festival Songs of Set, and the later reconstruction of Osiris' body by the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.[1]
There is evidence in the text that other copies existed, and that it was old enough to allow of variant readings having crept in. With the “
Litanies
of Seker,” which follows, consisting of four columns, it occupies twenty-one of the thirty-three columns of the whole papyrus. The second composition which was evidently intended to be sung after the Festival Verses, consists of three parts: I. A Litany to the Sun-God; II. A Recitation by Isis; III. A Litany to the Hathors. During the sixteen repetitions of it which were required, it was to have an accompaniment of tambourines.
A hieratic papyrus of Berlin contains a work very similar to the “Festival Songs”. It has been translated by M. de Horrack, and is entitled “Les Lamentations d'Isis et Nephthys.”
References
- ^ Dictionary of Egyptian Archaeology - M. Brodick and A.A. Morton
External links
The Songs of Isis and Nephthys, translated by R.O. Faulkner
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