This short passage is from the closing text of the first hour when the sun god addresses the gods of the first hour. I think this passage is referring to something central in AE thought. It seems to point to how the sun god goes into the underworld at night to merge with Osiris who is just another aspect of the god (that is why he says 'greet myself'). When the sun god brings Osiris to life he also is renewed and able to be reborn young again at dawn. And Ra bringing life to the god in the underworld, Osiris, that continues the eternal process of agricultural rebirth where the dead soil brings the seeds to life, and the inundation of the nile guarantees life for all of Egypt.
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πππ»πππππ©ππππ·π€πππ π
α»α».n.α» nαΈ.α» αΈ₯r.α» α»m.α»
jj - verb to come
jj.n.j - sDm.n.f (perfect construct) - with first person singular suffix pronoun "i have come"
nD.j - verb with first person singular suffix pronoun "i greet"
Hr.j - prepositional phrase with first person singular suffix pronoun "myself"
jm.j - prepositional phrase with first person singular suffix pronoun "by means of myself"
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ππππ‘ππππ ±πΉπΉπΉπππ’πππ»πππ₯ππ
znf.α» αΈ₯κ₯w.α» κ₯αΈ₯κ₯y.sn n.f
that i let my limbs breath as they rise for him
znf - verb (caus. 2-lit) make to breath - let breath
.j - subject first person singular pronoun
Haw.j - object - 'limbs' with first person possessive suffix pronoun (my limbs)
aHay.sn - verb 'stand' with third person plural suffix pronoun
n.f - dative
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ππ ±ππ΄ππ¨ππ ΌππΉπ ±ππ.
α»w.α» sαΈ₯tm.α» α»rw r.s
It is I who destroys (those who) act against it
jw.j - particle with first person suffix pronoun (fronting the topic)
sHtm.j - verb (casu. 3 lit) to destroy with subject first person suffix pronoun
jrw - verb - active participle
r.s - prepositional phrase with third person feminine singular suffix pronoun (it)
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πππππππ πππΌππΉπ ±πΎππ₯ππ¨πΉπππππππΏπ.
dα».α» srαΈ³ m sfg α»rw wsα»r αΈ«nty-α»mntyw
I give breath to secret of form, Osiris Foremost of the westerners
dj.j - I give (verb with subject 1st person suffix pronoun)
Causative construction (rdi + prospective sDm.f). "I cause that Osiris, foremost of westerners, inhale as Secret-of-Forms."
srq - object - infinitive of verb to breath (I give breath)
m sfg irw wsir xnty-imntyw - prepositional phrase
sfg irw wsir xnty-imnty - prepositional object (three nouns in apposition)
sfg irw - noun phrase - nfr Hr construction (Secret of forms)
Forms, to incorporate the plural marker. I'd capitalize this since it's a divine name.
wsir - Osiris
xnty-imntyw - title foremost of the westerners (nfr-Hr??)
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I think this passage is referring to something central in AE thought. It seems to point to how the sun god goes into the underworld at night to merge with Osiris who is just another aspect of the god (that is why he says 'greet myself'). When the sun god brings Osiris to life he also is renewed and able to be reborn young again at dawn. And Ra bringing life to the god in the underworld, Osiris, that continues the eternal process of agricultural rebirth where the dead soil brings the seeds to life, and the inundation of the nile guarantees life for all of Egypt.
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