Egyptian text that started StarGate

[Daniel Jackson]

This texts tells the story of Re's plan to destroy the human race because he came to hear of mankind's plots against him. After an initial spate of destruction by the Eye of Re, the sun god relented and came up with a plan to save the remainder of mankind.

The text itself comes down to us via inscriptions from five royal tombs of the New Kingdom: Tuntankhamun, Seti I, Ramses II, Ramses III, Ramses VI. The copy presented here is scanned from Gods of the Egyptians, vol 1, by E.A Wallis Budge, the copyright having expired on this publication. The scanned images have had Budge's outdated transliteration and translation removed and the hieroglyphic text updated and corrected based on the more recent publication by Erik Hornung in Der Ägyptische Mythos Von Der Himmelskuh. In addition, sections of the text have been checked for correctness agains photographs of the inscriptions from the tomb of Seti I in Das Grab Sethos' I. by Erik Horning, pp194-195.

you may view the test in it't original Egyptian format.

Re Also means Ra


http://www.rostau.demon.co.uk/DestructionOfMankind/index.html


I am currently translating the text, I will post a full translation soon.

 

[jsc]

Cool! New kingdom from the 18th and 19th Dynasties.
Is that a bit late for the gate and goa'ulds? Or am I thinking of their first appearance in the Old Kingdom?

By the way, Welcome to the Talk Stargate Forum! Glad you are already posting, and interesting ones also!

[Edited by jsc on 10-05-2000 at 10:11 AM]