The Great Hymn to Aten (God)

Chapter - 4

1	(life-giving nature of God)
2	Your rays nurse all fields.
3	When You shine they live, they grow for You.
4	You made the seasons, so that all that You made may come to life.
5	Winter cools them, and heat makes them sense You.
6	the Aten is sole witness, sole creator & sole presence
7	You created the sky far away in order to ascend to it,
8	to witness everything You created.
9	You are alone, shining in your form of the living God.
10	Risen, radiant, distant and near.
11	You made millions of forms from yourself alone :
12	cities, towns, fields, the river's course.
13	All eyes see You above them
14	as God of the daytime on high.
15	When You are gone, (...) your eye is gone (...)
16	which You have made ... for their sake
17	Pharaoh is the only messenger of God
18	But even then You are in my heart and there is no other who knows You,
19	only your son, Nefer-kheperu-Re, the only begotten Son of God,
20	whom You have taught your ways and your might.
21	The ones on Earth come into being by your hand, in the way You made them.
22	When You rise, they live.
23	When You set, they die.
24	You yourself are lifetime itself, one lives through You.
25	All eyes rest on beauty until You set.
26	All labor ceases when You rest in the West.
27	When You rise, You make all arms firm for the King,
28	every leg is on the move since You founded the Earth,
29	You rouse them for your son, who emerged from your body.
30	The King who lives by the Righteous Laws, the Lord of the Two Lands :
31	Nefer-kheperu-Re, the only begotten Son of God,
32	the Son of the Holy Spirit who lives by the Righteous Law,
33	the Lord of Crowns, Akhenaten, great in his lifetime.
34	And the great Queen whom he loves,the Lady of the Two Lands :
35	Nefer-neferu-Aten Nefertiti,
36	who lives and is re born for ever and ever. (Amen).

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