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1 Recitation by an able follower.
1–3 Be informed, high official:
look, we have reached home.
3–5 The mallet has been taken, the mooring-post has been hit,
and the prow-rope is set on land.
5–6 Praise has been given, and thanks,
and every man is embracing the other.
7–8 Our crew has returned safe,
with no loss of our expedition.
8–10 We have reached Wawat’s wake,
we have gone by Bigga.
10–11 So, look, we have returned in peace;
our land, we have reached it.
12–13 So, listen to me, high official:
I am free of excess.
13–15 Wash yourself, put water on your fingers:
then you can answer when you are addressed.
15–17 You can speak to the king with your wits about you;
you can answer without stuttering.
17–19 For the mouth of a man saves him;
for his speech makes leniency for him.
20–21 But you act as you have in mind;
speaking to you is wearisome.
21–24 Nonetheless, let me relate to you something similar
that happened to me myself,
when I went to the mining country for the sire.
24–27 I went down to the sea in a boat
of a hundred twenty cubits in length
and forty cubits in width,
27–28 a hundred twenty sailors in it
of the choice of Egypt.
28–30 Whether they saw sky or saw land,
their mind was more observant than lions.
30–32 They could predict a gale before it came,
a thunderstorm before it happened.
32–34 A gale came up while we were at sea,
before we could touch land,
34–37 the wind lifted repeatedly,
with a swell of eight cubits from it.
The mast was what broke it for me.
37–39 Then the boat died,
and of those who were in it, not one survived.
39–41 Then I was put on an island
by a wave of the sea.
41–42 I spent three days alone,
my mind as my only companion,
42–45 lying inside a thicket,
having embraced the shade.
45–46 Then I stretched my legs
to learn what I might put in my mouth.
47–48 I found figs and grapes there,
and all (kinds of) fine vegetables.
49–50 Green and ripe sycamore figs were there,
and melons as if cultivated.
50–52 Fish were there, and birds:
there was nothing that was not inside it.
52–54 Then I sated myself,
and put some down because of how much was on my arms.
54–56 I took a fire-stick, created a fire,
and made a burnt offering to the gods.
56–59 Then I heard a sound of thunder;
I thought it was a wave of the sea.
59–60 Trees were cracking,
the ground was quaking.
60–62 When I uncovered my face,
I found it was a snake, and he was coming.
62–64 He was thirty cubits long,
and his beard, it was greater than two cubits.
64–66 His body was plated with gold,
his eyebrows were real lapis-lazuli,
and he was bent forward.
67–68 He opened his mouth at me,
as I was on my belly in his presence,
69–70 saying to me, “Who fetched you?
Who fetched you, mister? Who fetched you?

>>16413048
70–73 If you delay telling me who fetched you to this island,
I will make you find yourself as ash,
having become one who is not seen.”
73–76 But he spoke to me without my hearing it,
though I was in his presence, because I had fainted.
76–78 Then he put me in his mouth,
took me away to his place of residence,
78–80 and set me down without my being touched,
sound, with nothing taken from me.
81–82 He opened his mouth at me,
as I was on my belly in his presence.
83–84 Then he said to me, “Who fetched you?
Who fetched you, mister?
84–86 Who fetched you to this island of the sea,
whose two sides are in the waters?”
86–89 Then I answered him,
my arms bent in his presence,
saying to him, “It was I.
89–93 I went down to the mining country on the sire’s mission
in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length
and forty cubits in width,
93–94 a hundred twenty sailors in it
of the choice of Egypt.
95–97 Whether they saw sky or saw land,
their mind was more observant than lions.
97–98 They could predict a gale before it came,
a thunderstorm before it happened.
99–101 Each one of them, his mind was more observant
and his arm more forceful than his companion;
there was no fool in their midst.
101–103 A gale came up while we were at sea,
before we could touch land,
103–106 the wind lifted repeatedly,
with a swell of eight cubits from it.
The mast was what broke it for me.
106–108 Then the boat died,
and of those who were in it, not one survived except me,
and here I am beside you.
109–10 Then I was fetched to this island
by a wave of the sea.”
111–13 So, he said to me, “Don’t fear, don’t fear, mister.
Don’t blanch because you have reached me.
113–14 Look, the god, he has let you live
by fetching you to this island of ka.
115–16 There is nothing that is not inside it,
for it is full of all good things.
117–19 Look, you are to spend month upon month,
until you have completed four months inside this island.
119–21 A boat is to come from home,
with sailors you know in it.
122–23 You will go home with them,
and die in your town.
124 How happy is he who relates what he has tasted
when something painful passes.
125 So, let me relate to you something similar
that happened in this island.
126–27 I was in it with my siblings
and children amid them.
127–29 We totaled seventy-five snakes,
consisting of my offspring and my siblings,
without me mentioning to you, from experience, the little daughter I got.
129–30 Then a star came down,
and those went up in fire from it.

>>16412581
Read this and you'll end up on /x/ asking for help to defeat the succubus you summoned

>>16413062
130–31 But it happened while I was not along:
they burned up when I was not in their midst.
131–32 Then I died for them,
after I found them as one pile of corpses.
132–33 If you have persevered, with your mind firm,
you will fill your embrace with your children;
133–34 you will kiss your wife and see your home:
it is better than anything;
135–36 you will reach home and be in it
amid your siblings.”
136–38 At that, I wound up prostrate on my belly,
having touched the ground in his presence,
138–40 and saying to him, “I will relate your impressiveness to the sire
and make him aware of your greatness.
140–42 I will have fetched to you jbj-oil and knw-oil,
jwdnb-resin and hzyt-resin, the incense of temple stores,
with which every god is contented.
142–43 And when I relate what happened to me,
what I have seen of your impressiveness,
143–44 you will be thanked in the town
in front of the council and the whole land.
144–46 I will slaughter for you bulls as a burnt offering,
having wrung the necks of birds for you.
146–47 I will have fetched to you ships
loaded with every specialty of Egypt,
147–48 like that which is done for a god people love,
in a far-off land that people don’t know.”
149 Then he laughed at me, at what I said to him,
in error in his opinion,
149–50 saying to me, “Do you have so much myrrh,
and have you become owner of incense?
151 For I am lord of Punt
and myrrh, it is mine.
152 That knw-oil you said would be fetched,
it is the chief thing of this island.
153–54 And when you come to separate yourself from this place,
you will never see this island,
once it has become waters.”
155 Then that boat came
as he had predicted before.
155–56 Then I went
and put myself on a high tree,
and I recognized those who were inside it.
157 Then I went to report it
and I found him aware of it.
158–59 Then he said to me, “Farewell,
farewell, mister, to your house.
You will see your children.
159–60 Put my good name in your town.
Look, that is what I need from you.”
161 Then I put myself on my belly,
my arms bent in his presence.
162–65 Then he gave me a shipment of myrrh and knw-oil,
jwdnb-resin, hzyt-resin, tj-šps wood,
šz plants, galena, tails of giraffe,
big lumps of incense, teeth of elephant,
hounds, monkeys, apes:
every good specialty.
166 Then I loaded it onto that boat.
166–67 Once I had put myself on my belly
to thank him,
167–68 then he said to me,
“Look, you are to arrive home in two months.
168–69 You will fill your embrace with your children
and be rejuvenated inside your entombment.”
169–70 Then I went down to the shore
in that boat’s vicinity.
170–71 Then I was calling to the expedition
that was in that boat.
171–72 I gave praise on the shore
to the lord of that island,
and those who were in it did likewise.
172–73 What we did was to sail downstream
to home and the sire.

>>16412581
Take the sumerianpill.
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslbycat.php

>>16413073
173–74 We arrived home in month two,
like all that he had said.
174–75 Then I entered to the sire
and presented him with the cargo
that I had gotten inside that island.
176 Then he thanked me
in front of the council and the whole land.
177–79 Then I was appointed follower
and endowed with two hundred servants.
179–81 See me, after my touching land,
after my seeing what I have tasted.
181–82 So, listen, high official:
look, it is good for people to listen.
>183–84 Then he said to me,
> “Don’t act so accomplished, friend.
>184–86 What is the point of giving water to a bird
> at the dawn of its slaughter in the morning?”

>>16412581
>are liberals memeing again to pretend non-westerners had a culture?
Are you retarded? Brits have been obsessing over Egypt since the 18th century

>>16413154
>he probably thinks liberalism was invented in the 21st century

>>16413154
Cause they needed the suez canal you retarded faggot

>>16412581
>egyptians
>non-Westerners
Come on man.

>>16413187
Westerners are not black

>>16413183
Yes, they collected mummies and learned how to read hyeroglyphs because they needed a fucking river they already had control over anyway.
>>16413171
OP doesn't mean liberalism the economic philosophy, he means progressive politics.

>>16413086
>TL;DR:
Sailor failed his mission, don't know what to say to the king.
>other Sailor gives this tall tale of how he got his favored position
>guard leading them then in the end, knowing that the 'you dun goofed' sailor will probably die, or something bad, and that giving him this tale was merely giving him false hopes
ala
>What is the point of giving water to a bird at the dawn of its slaughter in the morning?”

>>16413210
>he doesn't know
OHONONONO

>>16412581
also, I think you'll find all those tales in pic related, OP is 2/3 hieroglyphics and transliteration, then there's a truck load of commentary.
Translations might not be on the same level (Allen is the cream of the crop)

>>16413215
>Yes, they collected mummies and learned how to read hyeroglyphs because they needed a fucking river they already had control over anyway.
They did that to store all the findings in the British museum (Egyptians weren't even allowed to see them at the time of the escavation) and benefit from it centuries after not being a world power anymore (they still refuse to return them to Egypt today). Maybe it's not progressive liberalism but it was still the globalism aspect of classical liberalism that led to it

>>16413296
They just had a fascination for ancient Egypt because it was an exotic long lost culture that lasted for thousands of years. They didn't study Egyptology for any practical or ideological reason.

>>16413344
Ok retard

>>16413271

>>16413377
The Debate Between a Man and his Soul is indeed great.

>>16413210
>get's burnt

>>16412581
>pretend non-westerners had a culture
Surviving Egyptian stories are largely shit, but ignoring the vast availability of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian literature there are bits and pieces of old African literature out there such as The Epic of Sundiata from Mali or Kebra Nagast from Ethiopia that are both from around the 13th to 14th centuries. There's also an epic poem Emperor Shaka the Great from the 19th century but that's way more modern comparatively.

>>16413902
mahabarata is the biggest shit out there