Prophecy Of Neferti

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Prophecy Of Neferti

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Selfie Fulfilling Prophecy ↟↟

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

AKA: Prophecy of Neferty

Egypt was filled with people full of self-love just before it was destroyed.

Selfy-Love ? Sound familiar?

Notes:

1. Sneferu the reigning Pharaoh.
2. Neferti was the Sage / Prophet.
3. Pharaoh means "Great House".
4. "His Power" is Pharaoh's title.

(Papyrus Hermitage 1116B, lines 1 to 71)

1. It happened that the Power of the dual king Sneferu true of voice was the good king in this entire land.
2. One day it happened that the council of the Residence entered the Palace, may it live, prosper and be well, for the audience.
3. They emerged after they had made their audience in their regular daily manner.
4. Then His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, said to the sealer who was beside him
5. "Hurry and bring me the council of the Residence that went here for the audience today"
6. Back they were brought at once, and they were on their stomachs in the presence of His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, a second time.
7. Then His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, said to them
8. "Comrades, look, I have had you summoned, to have you seek out for me a son of yours who is wise, a brother of yours who is excellent, a friend of yours who can strike the right chord, who will tell me some fine words , some choice phrases to entertain My Power at hearing them."
9. Then they were on their stomachs in the presence of His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, a second time.
10. Then they said before His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, "There is a great lector of Bast, O sovereign our lord, called Neferti, he is a commoner valiant in his arm, he is a writer excellent in his fingers, let him be brought for His Power to see him."
11. Then His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, said "Go and bring him to me."
12. Then he was brought to him at once and he was on his stomach in the presence of His Power, may he live, prosper and be well.
13. Then His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, said "Come then, Neferti, friend, Tell me some fine words, choice phrases to entertain My Power at hearing them."
14. And the lector Neferti said, "(on) what has happened, or what is to happen, O sovereign, may he live, prosper and be well, my lord?"
15. So His Power, may he live, prosper and be well, said, "on what is to happen, for today is already happened and gone".
16. And he stretched out his hand to the chest of writing equipment, and took out a papyrus roll and writing palette, and prepared to write down what the lector Neferti would say, as a man of knowledge in the East, belonging to Bast in her rising, as a child of the province Ruler-Anedj.
17. He gathered his thoughts on the events in the land, he recalled the turmoil of the East, the rampage of Asiatics with their forces, disrupting the hearts of those at harvest, seizing those yoked in ploughing.
18. He said "stir yourself, my heart, as you weep for this land where you started, silence would be refreshment. Look, what is said of it should (inspire) respect, look, now, the great is sent sprawling there where you started."
19. Do not tire: look at it before you, Stand up to what is in front of you, Look, now, the great are in the condition of the land, what was made is become unmade, Ra (must) begin his creation the land is destroyed entirely, nothing is left over there is not a trace of the fingernail in its fixed place.
20. This land is destroyed without any to care for it, any to speak up, any to make lament, what will become of this land?
21. The sun disk is a being concealed, and will not shine for the people to see, and no one can live, when the clouds are covered.
22. Then they are, every one, deafened in its absence.
23. I am to say what is before me, I am not prophesying what has not happened.
24. The river of Egypt is dry, the water is crossed on foot, water is sought for boats for its sailings.
25. Its course is turned into its shore, its sandback into flood, The place of water into what should be the place of the shore.
26. The south wind does battle with the north wind, there will be not one wind for the sky.
27. Alien birds will give birth in the pool of the Delta and it has made a nest on the (Delta) fringes, even approaching people out of famine.
28. Utterly destroyed are those (times) of happiness at those basin lakes, with men set to slitting fish, overflowing with fish and fowl.
29. All happiness has departed, flung down in the land of hardship, from those (weights) of supplies of the Asiatics who are throughout the land.
30. Men of violence have emerged in the East, Asiatics are coming down into Egypt, The confines are lost, another is beside, who will not be heard.
31. The ladder will be blocked in the night, the camps will be entered, the bleary-eyed will be overpowered, as the sleeper says "I am awake".
32. The herds of foreign lands will drink from the rivers of Egypt. They will be refreshed on their shores, for want of any to drive them back.
33. This land is to be taken and carried off, unaware of the onset of what will happen, hidden in the saying:
34. "Look out, the hearer is going deaf, the silent one is before (us)"
35. I give you the land in the passing of evil - what should not happen, happens.
36. Weapons of war will be taken up, as the land lives in turmoil.
37. Weapons will be made of copper and the bread they request will be blood, they will burst into laughter at grief, no-one will weep at death, no-one will sleep hungry for want for death, and the heart of a man will only be after himself.
38. No mourning will be observed today - the heart is turned entirely to itself.
39. A man rests on his side - at his back one man kills another.
40. I can show you the son as attacker, the brother as enemy, man murdering his father.
41. Every mouth is filled with "love me".
42. Happiness is all gone
43. The land is laid waste, even though law is decreed for it, Destruction is a fact - ruin is reality.
44. What was done is undone.
45. A man's property is taken from him, and given to the outsider.
46. Let me show you the master in grief, the outsider in peace.
47. The one who never received his fill, can now go and empty.
48. Goods are given out only hatefully, to silence the mouth of the speaker.
49. The phrase is answered at the arm raised with a stick, and people speak by murder.
50. Speech alights on the heart like fire. No-one can bear a word from the mouth.
51. The land is poor, but rich in directors, It lies ruined, but its labours are great
52. The harvest is small, the grain-measure great, and must be measured out in daylight.
53. Ra distances himself from mankind. He rises and the hour is there, but no-one knows if midday will come.
54. Shadows cannot be made out, sight cannot shine at being watched, eyes cannot brim with water, as he is there in the sky like the moon, and his time for knowing cannot be impaired.
55. Yet his rays are in sight, in the (same) moments as for the ancestors.
56. Let me show you the land in turmoil, the powerless is now powerful, the one who should greet receives the greeting, and let me show you the lower made the upper, stirred around after stirring around the body.
57. People live in the cemetery, and the humble will acquire great wealth until [uproar] breaks out.
58. It is the vagabonds who can eat bread, the labourers who enforce labour.
59. The Province of the Sun-god can no longer be the birth place of any god.
60. There is a king who will come from the south.
61. Ameny true of voice is his name.
62. He is the son of a woman of the Land of the Bow, he is a child of the Heartland of Nekhen.
63. He will take up the White Crown, he will raise up the Red Crown, he will unite the Two Mighty Goddesses, he will appease the Two Lord Gods, with what they desire.
64. The field circuit is in his grasp, the oar in the jump.
65. Rejoice O people of his time.
66. The son of a man will make his name for eternity and everlasting time.
67. Those who fall into evil, or plan treason, they will be overthrown on themselves for fear of him, the Asiatics will fall at his slaughter, the Libyans will fall at his fire, the rebels at his force, the evil-hearted at his majesty.
68. The rising cobra who is in the palace will overpower the evil-hearted for him.
69. They will build the Walls of the Ruler may he live, prosper, and be well, to prevent the Asiatics from coming down into Egypt if they request water in the proper manner, to let their flocks drink.
70. Right is returned to its place, and evil is expelled, rejoice whoever will see, whoever will live in the following of the king.
71. The wise man will pour water for me, when he sees what I have said has come to pass.

Source University College London.

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