User:Tomispev/Coffin Texts Spell 714

The spell 714 of the Coffin Texts survives only in the inner coffin B3L of a person called, 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
A I am the Waters, unique, without second. F I am, the Sole one who has no equal,

VI 343k-344d – The evolution of creation
|  ⸢⸣    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.

|   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;

A I am the one who began therein, (in) the Waters. F I am he who originated in the Abyss,

|   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.

A I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. F I brought my body into being through my power;

|       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)
F What went forth from me was under my supervision;

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

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