Unas the Skywalker: The Pyramid Texts of Unas (Part 4)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Osiris achieves his apotheosis. Having awakened from death and received his offerings (or taken them by force), Unas now prepares to enter the sky at last. We add more protections and defeat more enemies (including a dramatic appearance from the fearsome Mafdet). Then, Unas meets the oldest of primeval gods, sails the milky way, and hears the lamentations of his enemies’ women… Includes passages in English translation and ancient Egyptian. Date: c.2320 BCE. The History of Egypt Podcast Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Pyramid Texts in translation: https://pyramidtextsonline.com/translation.html. Intro music by Jeffrey Goodman, “Lament of Isis and Nephthys,” Ancient Egyptian Music II. Interludes by Keith Zizza, Children of the Nile. The Pyramid Texts publications: J. P. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2nd edn, 2015). First edition (2005) available in Open Access via Archive.org. J. P. Allen, A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts Volume I: Unis (2017). Available via the publisher, and major online retailers. R. Bertrand, Las Textes de la Pyramid d’Ounas (2004). Available via the publisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Hello, and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast.
0:39.6	This is the complete pyramid texts, as found in the monument of King Eunus at Sakara.
0:46.6	This is part four in an ongoing mini-series.
0:50.1	If you have not listened to parts one to 3, I do recommend starting there.
1:02.0	From the cannibal hymn, we turn our attention to the East Wall.
1:07.0	This is the section just below the gable.
1:10.0	It begins with utterances, or 273 to 274, which actually
1:17.5	are on the gable section just after the cannibal hymn. But the cannibal text did not quite
1:23.9	fill up that entire section, so the sculptors added these passages on the side to keep
1:29.4	everything tidy. They go as follows, quote,
1:33.0	Unas has come to you, kite birds, although your houses are closed for Unas. His loincloth is on his back,
1:41.4	made of the hide of the Jan Baboon.
1:47.8	Unas opens the gate with the double doors.
1:52.5	Unas reaches the limit of the Achet, the eastern horizon.
1:57.1	After he has put there to the ground, his robe with the tail,
2:04.5	Unas will become a great one, who resides in Sebek, or Crocodilopolis.
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