After Horus, his successors and incarnations, the pharaohs, began to reign on earth. The choir united the Upper and Lower reaches, so the pharaohs are crowned with the United Crown - “Pschent”. The everyday crown of the pharaohs was the blue crown of Khepresh; The “great wives” of the rulers, the queens, also wore a somewhat different-looking crown.
God Thoth ordered the Egyptians to take care of Pharaoh and protect him in every possible way. Any blasphemy against the ruler must be mercilessly punished. His name should always be surrounded by a cartouche for protection from evil forces.
The ruling pharaoh maintains the world order established by the goddess Maat. Since he shone on the Egyptian throne, the Sun rises when it is supposed to and does not deviate from its path, the seasons change on time, grains sown in the ground sprout, and at the appointed time the Nile floods with grace - for before the water begins to rise, the pharaoh throws papyrus into the Nile with a decree commanding the River to flood.
"Ankh-uja-seneb!" - may he live, may he live and may he prosper! For the health and prosperity of the Pharaoh is the key to the prosperity of their Lands. If the pharaoh grows old and his strength is exhausted, then his body will again be filled with the strength of a bull, and again he will be as powerful as a lion, after the holiday of the thirtieth anniversary of his reign - the holiday of Heb-sed.
(Heb-sed - “The festival of the thirtieth anniversary (of the reign of the ruling pharaoh).” The rituals performed during this holiday - the ritual run of the pharaoh (symbolic: in reality, it was not the pharaoh himself who usually ran. Compare: the ritual run of Apis), the funeral of his figurine in the tomb, the raising of the Djed pillar, etc. - had the goal of reviving the vitality of the pharaoh, his resurrection after (symbolic) death like Osiris and nature. The Heb-sed holiday was a relic of the ancient custom of the ritual murder of a leader, with the health, vitality and sexual potency of which, according to beliefs, the well-being of the tribe was associated - the fertility of the land, the reproduction of livestock, childbirth, etc.: the murdered leader was replaced by a healthy young successor. It was suggested that this particular custom was the real basis of the myth of murder and resurrection. Osiris. The holidays of the “thirty years of reign” were celebrated not literally 30 years after the pharaoh’s accession to the throne, but more often: in the Old Kingdom - after a sufficiently long period of time, in the New - sometimes annually. During the holiday, mysteries based on the myth of Osiris were played.)
When the pharaoh, like Osiris, resurrects after the Hebsed holiday, the goddess of music Mert, the patroness of solemn hymns to the gods, will jubilantly begin to dance, and the temple singers together with her will glorify the reborn ruler of the North and South.
The fate of the pharaoh is controlled by the goddess Maat herself, the legislator and mistress of “truth” - the world order. On the day of the coronation of the pharaoh, Maat, together with Thoth and Seshet, writes the name of the pharaoh on the leaves of the Ished tree, thereby granting him immortality. After this, the gods, led by Ra, decide what should happen in the country during the reign of the new ruler, and Maat writes down their decision on the leaves of the Tree. Woe to him who tries to violate the decree of the gods, even through his own ignorance! The pharaoh should have skilled fortune-tellers and dream interpreters among his courtiers, so that they would warn him against any wrong action displeasing to the gods, and he would not violate the plans of Maat, and if suddenly, out of ignorance, he began to act contrary to the will of the goddess, he would have time to stop in time, as was the case with Pharaoh Khufu (Greek Cheops).
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru