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The Teaching for Merikare (pPetersburg 1116 A)

English for the 2 passages of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.

1.124

jwi̯ bꜣ r s,t rḫ.w.n =f n thi̯{t}.n =f wꜣ,t.pl =f n.t sf n ḫsf.n sw ḥkꜣ,w nb spr =f r ḏḏ.yw.pl mw =f

The ba comes to the place it knows; it does not stray from its paths of yesterday; no magic can repel it; it reaches those who give it water.

1.301

jri̯.n =f n =sn ḥkꜣ,w r ꜥḥꜣ,w r ḫsf ꜥ n[,j] ḫpr.yt rs.wt ⸢ḥr⸣ =s grḥ mj hrw

He made magic for them as weapons, to ward off the blow of what happens, watched over by night as by day.

Translator's note. rs.wt ḥr=s, rendered 'watched over', may instead be 'dreams concerning it'.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pPetersburg 1116 A).