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Chapter 1  
     
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 When Osiris reigned death was not in the land.
 
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 Arms were not in men's hands; there were not any wars.
 
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 From end to end of the land music sounded; men and women spoke so sweetly and out of such depth of feeling that all they said was oratory and poetry.
  
4.
 Osiris taught men and women wisdom and he taught them all the arts.
 
5.
 He it was who first planted the vine;
 
6.
 he it was who showed men how and when to sow grain, how to plant and tend the fruit-trees; he caused them to rejoice in the flowers also.
 
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 Osiris made laws for men so that they were able to live together in harmony;
 
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 he gave them knowledge of the Gods, and he showed them how the Gods might be honoured.
  
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 And this was what he taught them concerning the Gods:
 
10.
 In the beginning was the formless abyss, Nuu.
 
11.
 From Nuu came Rê, the Sun. Rê was the first and he was the most divine of all beings.
 
12.
 Rê created all forms.
 
13.
 From his thought came Shu and Tefênet, the Upper and the Lower. Air.
 
14.
 From Shu and Tefênet came Qêb and Nut, the Earth and the Sky.
 
15.
 The Earth and the Sky had been separated, the one from the other, but once they had been joined together.
 
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 From the eye of Rê, made out of the essence that is in that eye, came the first man and the first woman.
  
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 And from Qêb, the Father, and Nut, the Mother, Osiris was born.
 
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 When he was born a voice came into the world, crying, "Behold, the Lord of all things is born!"
  
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 And with Osiris was born Isis, his sister.
 
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 Afterwards was born Thout, the Wise One.
 
21.
 Then there was born Nephthys.
 
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 And, last, there was born Sêth. And Sêth tore a hole in his mother's side--Sêth the Violent One.
 

 
 
 

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