peace and hotep,

"Formulae for repelling poison on the first occurrence,
when men became knowledgeable of its nature,
when the god was powerful in it through whom they came to be.
Words spoken by Serqet.
Formula of the divine god who came into being of himself,
maker of heaven and earth, of water, of the breath of life
of gods and humans, flocks and herds,
serpents, birds, and fish.
The kingship of humans and gods was a single thing for an extent of years.
Of numerous names, this name and that name unknown.
Now Isis is a wise woman,
more rebellious in her heart than a million men,
more choice than millions of gods,
more to reckon than millions of spirits.
She was ignorant of nothing in heaven and earth like Ra,
maker of what is under the earth. The goddess
she decided in her heart
to know the name of the noble god.
Now Ra went in every day
in front of the crew,
established on the double throne of the double horizon.
The divine old man bowed down his mouth,
and dripped his spittle to earth.
His spit had been dropped on the ground.
Isis scooped it up in her hand,
with the earth that was touching it,
and formed it into a noble snake
and made it with a tail shape,
not moving but alive in front of her.
She left it at the junction of a road,
crossed by the great god
going at his heart's desire for his two lands.
The noble god arose outside,
the gods of the palace, life! prosperity! health!, following him,
and he wandered as every day.
It bit as a noble snake,
living fire had come from him himself,
and raged through him in the forest.
The great god opened his mouth,
the cry of His Presence life! prosperity! health!, reaching heaven.
His ennead said 'what is it? what is it?'
His gods said, 'what! what!'
He could not find his mouth to answer about it,
his lips shaking,
all his limbs trembling
the poison had taken hold of him completely
like the Nile Flood sweeping all before it.
The great god summoned up his courage
and called to those in his following:
'Come to me, you who exist from my body,
gods who came out of me,
let me tell you its form.
Pain has struck,
My heart knows it, but my eyes cannot see it,
nor my hands make it,
nor do I recognise it from all I have made.
I have not tasted illness like it
Nothing could hurt more than this.'
'I am the eldest son of the eldest,
divine seed who came into being out of a god,
I am the great one, son of the great one.
The father devised the name.
I have many names, many forms,
he whose form is in every god,
who is called Atum-Horus-Hekenu.
My father and my mother told me my name
and I hid it from my children, in my body
to prevent it happening that a male or female magician strike against me.
I went outside to see what I have made,
and wander in the two lands which I created,
when something I do not recognise struck,
it is not fire,
it is not water.
My heart is ablaze, body trembling,
every limb under the effects of attack.'

The sacred god opened his mouth:
'It was when I was walking on the road,
wandering over the two lands and the deserts,
because my heart was longing to see what I created,
and I was bitten by a snake, unseen.
It is not fire,
it is not water,
though I feel colder than water
and hotter than fire.
All my limbs are in sweat,
I am shaking, my eye cannot hold steady,
I cannot see.
Rain is pouring down on me in the season of summer.'
Then said Isis to Ra:
'Tell me your name, my divine father.
A man lives when called by his name.'
'I am the maker of heaven and earth, the binder of mountains,
creator of what exists upon it.
I am the maker of water, for the Great Ocean to take form,
the maker of the bull for the cow,
for their sexual movement to take place,
the maker of the secret heaven of the horizon,
the one who placed the souls of the gods within it.
I am he who opens his eyes and there is light,
who shuts his eyes and there is darkness,
he at whose command the Nile Flood strikes,
whose name the gods cannot know.
I am the maker of hours, for day to exist,
I am the cleaver of the year, who creates the seasons.
I am the maker of the fire of life,
to enable the work of the house to take place.
I am Khepri in the morning, Ra at noon, Atum who is in the dusk.'
The poison was not dislodged from its course,
the great god was not soothed.
Then said Isis to Ra:
'Your name is not among those you have told me:
tell it to me.
The poison leaves a man when his name is pronounced.'
The poison bit in with its bite,
more powerful than the burn of fire.
Then the Presence of Ra said:
'Give my your ears, my daughter Isis,
for the issue with the name from my innards to your innards,
for the most divine among the gods hid it
to be broad ranging in the sacred boat of millions.
If it happens as the time of the desire going out to you,
tell it to the son, Horus,
when you have bound him by an oath of god,
the granting of the god his two eyes.'
The great god raised up in his name
to Isis great in words of power.
'Fail, scorpion, go out from Ra,
eye of Horus, go out from the god,
Burning of the mouth,
I am the one who made you, I am the one who sent you,
Fall to ground, poison,
I have power, see the great god has raised up in his name.
Ra lives, the poison has died.
So-and-so born of so-and-so is alive, the poison has died.'
From when Ra said his own name to Isis the great mistress of the gods."

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