09-23-2005, 01:57 PM
Bismilah,
Ahmedbahgat, it is a very intresting topic you have psoted here. Like I said I would get back to you on an Egyptian hymn to a verse from the bible. They gave very similar qualities. THe hymn is to Akhenaten god the Aton. Akhenaten was a New Kingdom Pharoh and he was Tutakhamen father. Akhenaten beleived in one god. Not like he predicesors who belived in many. His god was a sun disk. He made a special temple for his god Aton. So he could raise in it. Akhenaten made his people pray through him to the Aton. Does it sound like a familar religion that is around today??
The quote I took out of the bible was from Psalm 104. I am not quite sure which was written first but I pretty sure that the hymn must of been written first. I don't know.
Well read both of them and see what you think.
HYMN TO ATON
You appear beautifully on the horizon of heaven
The living Aton, the beginning of life!
When you have risen on the eastern horizon
You have filled every land with you beauty
Your artegracious, great, glistening and high over very land
Your rays ecompass the lands o the limit of all that you have made
As you are Re, you reach to the end of them
(you) subdue them (for) you beloved son
Though you are far away your rays are on earth
Though you are in their faces, no one knows your going
When you set in the western horizon,
The land is in darkness, in the manner of death
(While the true) Nile comes from the underwoeld for Egypt
Your rays sucle every meadow
When your rise, they live, they grow for you
You make the seasons in order to rear all that you have made
The winter to cool them,
And the heat that they must taste you
You have made the distant sky in order to rise there in
In order to see all that you do make
While you were alone,
Rising in form as the living Aton
Appearing, shining, withdrawing or approaching
you made millions of forms of yourself alone
Cities, towns, fields, roads and rivers
Every eye beholds you over against them,
For you are the Aton of the day over the earth
You are in my heart, And there is no other that knows you
Save only your son Nefer-keheperu-ReWa-en-Re
For you have made hi, well-versed in your pans and in your strength
The worl came into being by your hand
According as you have made them
When you have risen they live
When you set they die
You are a lifetime your own self
For one live (only) through you
Eyes are (fixed) on beauty until you see
All work is laid aside when you set in the west
(But) when (you) rise (again)
(Everything is) made to flourish for the king,
Since you did find the earth
And rise them up for your son
Who come fourth from your body
the King of Upper and Lower Egypt...Akh-en-Aton and the chief wife of the King...Nefer-iti,
living and youthful forever and ever.
(Note: Through the ages the translation has become more modernised. With both quotes.)
Psalm 104
Praise the Lord, O my soul.
O Lord my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with splendor and
majesty.
He wraps himself in light as with a
garment;
he streaches out the heavens like a
tent
and lays the beams of his upper
chambers on their waters
He makes the clouds, his chariot
and rides on the wings of the wind.
He makes winds his meassagers,
flames of fire his servents.
He set the earth on its foundations:
it can never be moved.
You covered it with the deep as with a
garment;
the waters stood above the
mountains;
Bt at your rebuke the waters fled,
at the sound of your thunder they
took flight;
they flowed over the mountains,
they went down into the valleys
to the place you assigned for them.
You set a boundary they cannot cross;
never again will they cover the earth.
He makes your springs pur water into the
ravines;
it flows between the mountains.
They give water to all the beast of the
field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst,
The birds of the air nest by the waters;
He waters the mountains from his
upper chambers;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of
his work.
He makes grass grow from the cattle,
and plants for mn to cultivate-
bringing forth food from the earth:
wine that gladdens the heart of man,
oil to make his face shine,
and bread that sustains his heart
The trees of the Lord are well
watered;
the cedars of Lebanon that he
planted.
There the birds make their nests;
the stork has his home in the pibe
trees.
The high mountains belong to the wild
goats;
the crags are a refuge for the
coneys.
The moon marks off the seasons,
and the sun knows when to go
down.
You bring darkness, it becomes night,
and all the beast of the forest
prowl.
The lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.
The sun rises, and they steal away;
they return and lie down in their
dens.
The an goes out to his work, O Lord!
In wisdon you made them all:
the earth is full of all your creatures.
There is the sea, vast and spacious,
temming with creatures beyond
number-
living things both large and small.
There the ships go to and fro,
and the leviathan which you formed
to frolic there.
These all look to you
to give them their food at the proper
time
When you give it to them,
they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
they are satisfied with good things,
When you hide your face,
they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
they die and return to dust.
When you send your Spirit,
they are created.
and you renew the face of the earth.
May the glory of the Lord ebdure
forever;
may the Lord rejoice in his works-
he who looks at the earth, and it
trembles,
who touches the mountains, and they
smoke.
I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long
as I live.
May my meditation be pleasing him,
as I rejoice in the Lord,
But my sinners vanish from the earth
and the wicked be no more.
Praise the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord.
Well that is it. Please read and we will discuss.
Your sister in Islam Alliex
Waslam