{"id":103,"date":"2011-07-24T16:25:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:30:51","slug":"song-for-the-feast-of-heryshef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/2011\/07\/24\/song-for-the-feast-of-heryshef\/","title":{"rendered":"Song for the Feast of Heryshef"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-103-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Song_for_Heryshef.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Song_for_Heryshef.mp3\">https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Song_for_Heryshef.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><font size=+1>Song for the Feast of Heryshef<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=-2>&#169; 2011 Natalie Baan<\/font><\/p>\n<p>King of the Two Lands,<br \/>\ngreat upon Your lake,<br \/>\nsplendid sharp-horned ram,<br \/>\nall that lives You make.<\/p>\n<p>Lord of Henen-nesu,<br \/>\nmaster of the land,<br \/>\nBast comes forth to wake You;<br \/>\nYou walk hand in hand<br \/>\nall along the river,<br \/>\nwelcoming the day.<br \/>\nGreen the new growth rises<br \/>\nwhere the floods once lay.<\/p>\n<p>Mighty on the hill,<br \/>\nforemost of the field,<br \/>\nwhere the heart is still,<br \/>\nthere You are revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is Your right eye,<br \/>\nthe moon is Your left.<br \/>\nSend the winds of new life,<br \/>\nsweetened by Your breath.<br \/>\nLusty in the springtime,<br \/>\npure within Your hall,<br \/>\nO soul of the Great Nine,<br \/>\ncome and bless us all.<\/p>\n<p>King of the Two Lands,<br \/>\ngreat upon Your lake,<br \/>\nsplendid sharp-horned ram,<br \/>\nall that lives You make.<\/p>\n<p>Heryshef, arise!<br \/>\nHeryshef, awake!<br \/>\nThe Eye of Ra has come to You<br \/>\nin beauty on Your lake.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><font size=-2><i>Notes<\/i>: Written in February 2010 for the Feast of Heryshef. <i>Henen-nesu<\/i>: the city later known as Heracleopolis, cult center of the ram-headed God Heryshef, whose name means &#8220;He who is upon His lake.&#8221; <i>The sun is Your right eye&#8230;sweetened by Your breath<\/i>: adapted from\/inspired by the stela of Somtutefnakht (in Lichtheim, <i>Ancient Egyptian Literature,<\/i> vol. 3).<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song for the Feast of Heryshef &#169; 2011 Natalie Baan King of the Two Lands, great upon Your lake, splendid sharp-horned ram, all that lives You make. Lord of Henen-nesu, master of the land, Bast comes forth to wake You; You walk hand in hand all along the river, welcoming the day. Green the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heryshef"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}