Homage
to thee, O thou who hast come as Khepera, Khepera
the creator of the gods, Thou art seated on thy throne, thou rises
up in the sky, illumining thy mother [Nut],
thou art seated on thy throne as the king of the gods. [Thy] mother
Nut stretched out her hands, and performed an act of homage to
thee.
In
Egyptian mythology, Nut
was the sky goddess and the mother goddess of ancient Egypt. Egyptian
artists often portrayed her as a woman arched over the earth god
Geb,
her twin brother and husband, with her fingers and toes touching
the ground.
In
one myth, Nut gives birth to the Sun god daily and he passes over
her body until he reaches her mouth at sunset. He then passed
into her mouth and through her body and is reborn the next morning.
Another myth described the sun as sailing up her legs and back
in the Atet (Matet) boat until noon, when he entered the Sektet
boat and continued his travels until sunset.
Behold,
I rejoice on my standard,
on my seat.
I am the creator of darkness,
making his place in the limits of the sky,
the ruler of infinity.
I rejoice in the lord of the palace.My nest is unseen;
I have broken the egg.
I am the lord of millions of years.
I have made my nest in the limits of the sky,
and descended to the earth as the Goose,
who drives out all sins.