User:Tomispev/Coffin Texts Spell 714

The spell 714 of the Coffin Texts survives only in the inner coffin B3L of a person called sn, found in el-Barsha and now located in the British Museum EA30842. The Hieroglyphic text is copied from de Buck (1956) and transposed from columns into rows.
The translations here are marked A for Allen (1988 and 2003, same text, 343j-344d only) and F for Faulkner (1977).

Coffin Texts: Spell 714

VI 343j – The background of creation

jnk nnw wꜥ jwt snnw⸗f

A I am the Waters, unique, without second.

F I am Nu, the Sole one who has no equal,

VI 343k-344d – The evolution of creation

ḫpr.n⸗j jm | zp wr ⸢m⸣ mḥ.t⸗j ḫpr.n⸗j

A That is where I evolved, on the great occasion of my floating that happened to me.

F and I came into being yonder on the great occasion of my flood, when I came into being.

jnk pꜣ(w) ḫpr⸗f ḏbnn | jmy swḥ.t⸗f

A I am the one who once evolved – Circlet who is in his egg.

F I am he who flew up, whose shape is (that of) ḏbnn who is in his egg;

jnk šꜣꜥ jm nnw

A I am the one who began therein, (in) the Waters.

F I am he who originated in the Abyss,

m⸗k ḥḥw pr.n⸗j | m⸗k wḏꜣ⸗j

A See, the Flood is subtracted from me (Gen 1:6-7): see, I am the remainder.

F and see, the Chaos-god came out to me; see, I am hale.

sḫpr.n⸗j ḥꜥw⸗j m ꜣḫ⸗j

A I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.

F I brought my body into being through my power;

jnk jr wj | qd.n(⸗j) wj r mr.r⸗j ḫft jb⸗j

A I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

F I am one who made myself, and I formed myself at my will according to my desire.

VI 344e-344g – The ending (incomplete)

jw pr.t jm⸗j m s.t-ḥr⸗j

F What went forth from me was under my supervision;

rmy.t [jr.y(t)]⸗j pw m ꜣ[d r]⸗j

F it means that tears are what I created in him who was angry with me,

r(m)ṯ n šp.w ḥ[r].w-sꜣ⸗j

F and men of the blind ones are my cattle...

References

• de Buck, Adriaan (1956) The Egyptian Coffin Texts VI, Spells 472-787
• Faulkner, Raymond O. (1977) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts II, Spells 355-787
• Allen, James P. (1988) Genesis in Egypt
• Allen, James P. (2003) Context of Scripture