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=Coffin Texts Spell 162 (Hymn to the Four Winds)=

II 389a – Title
Having power over the four winds of heaven by a man in the realm of the dead.

II 389b-391b – The North Wind
These winds have been given to me by these maidens.

Such is the north-wind which circulates about the Isles,

which opens its arms to the limits of the Two Lands

and which rests when it has brought the things which I desire daily.

The north wind is the breath of life,

and what it has granted to me is that I may live by means of it.

II 391c-394a – The East Wind
n⸗j     n These winds have been given to me by these maidens.

Such is the east-wind which opens the celestial windows;

snšt the east-wind is opened

n and a fair path is made for Re

⸗f ⸗s that he may go forth on it.

⸗j Re grasps my hand

⸗f m ⸗f and sets me in this (green) field of his in the midst of rushes,

⸗j ⸗s (and) I eat it in the manner of Apis,

⸗j ⸗s (and) I gorge on it in the manner of Seth.

n The east-wind is the breath of life,

⸗s n⸗j ⸗j ⸗s and what it has granted to me is that I may live by means of it.

II 395b-397a – The West Wind
These winds have been given to me by these maidens.

Such is the west-wind, the brother of Ha,

the offspring of Iaaw,

m  (n  jštj ) m which lives in one body, the second in this land

of the north, south, west and east winds.

n The west-wind is the breath of life,

and what it has granted to me is that I may live by means of it.

II 397b-398d – The South Wind
These winds have been given to me by these maidens.

m Such is the south-wind, a native of the Southland,

which brings water, growth and life;

and what it has granted to me is that I may live by means of it.

II 399a-405b – Concluding Hymn
⸗ṯn   nw   nw Hail to you, you four winds of the sky, the bulls of the sky!

⸗j n⸗k ⸗k n  n⸗k  ⸗j ⸗k I tell you your names, the names which I give to you. I know that you were brought to birth

⸗k and that you came into being before men were born or the gods existed,

before birds were trapped, before cattle was lassoed,

mꜣṯrt before there were bound up the jaws of Machret, daughter of the Great God,

sꜣjr r before there was created the need for any quarryman(?) of sky or earth.

⸗sn      n⸗j I have requested them (sic) from the Lord of Powers, and it is he who has given them to me.

r⸗k r⸗k ⸗k ⸗j ⸗j ⸗k Come, proceed with me, that I may cause you to see the bark,

⸗k ⸗k ⸗f ny⸗j that you may go aboard it and navigate in it without me(?).

⸗j I have built my own bark,

⸗j ⸗f r sšnt and I cross in it to the lotus-tank,

⸗j  nj   r ⸗f and I will hew out therein a bark of 1000 cubits over all,

⸗j ⸗f r nj ḫnft I will navigate in it to the Stairway of Baking

⸗f r nj ḫnft just as Re navigated to the Stairway of Baking,

⸗j r ṯnt and I will have bread outside Tenet.

=References=
 * de Buck, Adriaan (1938) The Egyptian Coffin Texts II, Spells 76-163
 * Faulkner, Raymond O. (1973) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts I, Spells 1-354