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Invocation Hymn to Amun-Ra

I’ve seen a few asks about invocation hymns being used. The best source I’ve found is Richard Reedy’s book Eternal Egypt

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This comes from his book

“The priest/ess holds his/her hands in the invocation/nis* position, with the arms stretched out and held at about shoulder level and the hands held vertically with the thumbs seen on top. The following shall be said:

“May you awake in beauty! Hail to you, Amun-Ra Harakhty, Atum, Khepri, Heru who crosses the sky, Great Falcon, adorned of breast, Beautiful of face with the great double feather. May you awake in beauty at dawn At what the assembled Ennead says to you. Joy resounds for you at evening, Kenmut (one of the first of the 36 decan or star-deities) praises you Who spends the night being carried in pregnancy. The earth becomes bright at your birth. Your mother protects you every day. May Ra live and the enemy die! While you endure, your enemy falls. You cross the sky in life and in health. You adorn the sky in the Mandjet (morning) boat. You spend the day in your boat with pleasant heart. Ma’at has appeared on your forehead. Rise, Ra. Shine as Akhty (he of the horizon), Dark One with radiant face. The crew of Ra is jubilant. The sky and earth are joyful. The Great Ennead pay homage to you, Amun-Ra Harakhty has gone forth in triumph!”15 (4 times)

AN ALTERNATE INVOCATION HYMN Adapted from an inscription at the Temple of Hibis which “comprised part of the beginning of the daily cult ritual of the temple.” (Lorton, 159) All present shall recite the REFRAIN. The priest shall recite the versicle.

REFRAIN: “May you awaken, may you be in peace, may you awaken in peace. Awaken, Oh Amun-Ra, in life and in peace! Awaken in peace! “Oh Falcon of the Nome-gods, who lights the Two Lands, Bull of the Outpouring-of-Nun, who lives forever in his name of Ra, every day,

REFRAIN: “May you awaken, may you be in peace, may you awaken in peace. Awaken, Oh Amun-Ra, in life and in peace! Awaken in peace! “Oh Living-of-Births in his left Eye, whom everyone loves, in his name of Moon, the god of minds and hearts,

REFRAIN: “May you awaken, may you be in peace, may you awaken in peace. Awaken, Oh Amun-Ra, in life and in peace! Awaken in peace! “Oh He-exhales-the-winds, making throats to breathe, in his name of Amun, enduring in all things, the Ba of Shu for all the Netjeru,

REFRAIN: “May you awaken, may you be in peace, may you awaken in peace. Awaken, Oh Amun-Ra, in life and in peace! Awaken in peace! “Oh Flesh-of-life who creates the plant of life, Nepery, who floods the Two Lands, without whom there is no life within the Two Lands, in his name of Nun the great,

REFRAIN: “May you awaken, may you be in peace, may you awaken in peace. Awaken, Oh Amun-Ra, in life and in peace! Awaken in peace!”

May Wesir Reedy have cool water, bread, incense, alabaster, bread and all his favorite foods and all good things that the gods live on