The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook

✍ Scribed by Tamara L. Siuda

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction/How to Use This Book
Addendum for the 2009 Edition
1. The Why (and How) of Praying
What is Prayer?
Why Pray?
How to Pray
A Special Note about Translations in this Book
2. The Center of Our Faith: The Kemetic Orthodox Ritual of the Senut
Meeting God: Shrines
Setting up a Personal Shrine
Opening the Personal Shrine
Purifying and Dedicating a Personal Shrine
The Kemetic Orthodox Ritual of the Senut
Notes to the Ritual of the Senut
Senut Questions and Answers
Recipes: Natron and Kapet
3. Prayers and Hymns for Specific Gods (Netjeru)
Amun: The Hidden Lord
Aten: Splendid Disk of the Sun
Atum (Temu): The Complete
Djehuty, Ever Wise
Heru: Soaring Hawk(s)
Min: Fertility Personified
Ptah, the Creator
Ra: Everything Under the Sun
Set, Before Whom the Sky Shakes
Sobek: Shining Crocodile
Sokar: The Falcon King of the Night
Wepwawet, Opener of the Ways
Wesir, King of the Ancestors
Yinepu: The Royal Child, Companion and Guide
4. Prayers and Hymns for Specific Goddesses (Netjerut)
Aset, Mistress of Magic
Bast, the Invisible Paw
Hethert: Gold of the Gods
Ma’at, the Way of Life
Mertseger: Peak of the West
Mut, the Mother
Nebt-het: Friend of the Dead
Nut, Starry Vault of Heaven
Sekhmet, Lady of the Red Garment
Tauret, Great One of Birth
5. Prayers & Rituals for the Ancestors/Blessed Dead (Akhu)
Standard Funerary Formula
Prayer to Geb for the Akhu
Akhu Prayer to Nut under the nighttime sky
Blessing for the dead
Libation Chant to the Akhu and/or Wesir
Bread Offering prayer for the Akhu
A Hotep-di-Nisut
Another Hotep-di-Nisut
To free a ghost
6. Family Prayers
Short Traditional Grace
Longer Traditional Grace
Prayer to Amun for a sister and her family
Prayer for one’s spouse and children
Prayer for protection in pregnancy
Fertility prayer to Khnum
Heka to end arguing
To protect the family
7. Children’s Prayers and Rituals
Prayer to be said for a child at sunrise
Simple light prayer for a child’s shrine
Children’s Protection Heka
Protection against darkness
8. Blessing Prayers
Full Moon Healing Prayer to Djehuty
Prayer to Set for a good life
Prayer to Amun for successful healing
Four Winds prayer
Prayer to Hethert for love
Prayer to Djehuty for wisdom
Writer’s Prayer to Djehuty
Heka against the “Evil Eye”
Blessing Prayer to Amun-Ra
Prayer to Ra for prosperity
Heka to Heru-sa-Aset for good business
Prayer to Imhotep for a cure in a dream
Heka to Khnum to restrain anger
Chant for truth
Spell for confidence
9. Protection Prayers
Prayer for protection of an enclosed space
Prayer to Set to avert evil
Prayer to Amun for deliverance from danger
Prayer to Amun for a good trial
Prayer to Shu and Hethert for safe flight
Double Truths Heka
Heka against “evil sleep”
Prayer to Djehuty for vindication
Invocation of the Set-beast for protection
Heka to Nit for protection
Prayer to Serqet for freedom from poison or chemical addiction(s)
10. Rituals and Magical Utterances (Hekau)
Offering Song for Hethert
Lighting fire prayer
Lighting incense prayer for Heruakhety
Traditional incense prayer
Offering prayer to Shu
Nisut’s Hymn to the Rising Sun
Request for a Dream Oracle from Heru
Request for Dream Oracle from Aset, Nebt-het and Wesir
Purification Prayer
Censing Prayer
11. Daily and Holiday Prayers
Prayer for the New Crescent (Pesdjentiu)
Morning Litany to Khnum-Amun
Kheruef’s Prayer to the Rising Sun
Kheruef’s Prayer to the Setting Sun
Horemheb’s Prayer to the Rising Sun
The Lamentations of Aset and Nebt-het
Hymn to Sunrise
Dawn prayer to Nebt-het
Prayer to Atum at Night
Prayer for the Akhu at the New Moon Festival (Pesdjentiu)
Prayer to Sokar-Wesir and an Akh at the Full Moon Festival (Tepy-Semdet)
The 42 Purifications (Declarations of Innocence)
Appendix I: The Names of Netjer (Classical and English-Egyptian correspondences)
Appendix II: Concordance (sources for prayers)
Appendix III: The Kemetic Orthodox Festival Calendar
Appendix IV: For Further Study/Bibliography