{"id":59,"date":"2011-01-28T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:35:36","slug":"song-for-wesir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/2011\/01\/28\/song-for-wesir\/","title":{"rendered":"Song for Wesir"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-59-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Wesir.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Wesir.mp3\">https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Wesir.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><font size=+1>Song for Wesir<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=-2>&#169; 2011 Natalie Baan<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Night sun for the Akhu,<br \/>\nshining in the Duat,<br \/>\nsplendid in Iaru &#8212;<br \/>\nhear our prayers, great Wesir!<br \/>\nYou Who dwell in Abdju,<br \/>\nsovereign of the Two Lands<br \/>\nsmile on those who love You &#8212;<br \/>\nhear our prayers, great Wesir!<\/p>\n<p>Aset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us,<br \/>\nbeautiful of face, master of love!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us &#8212;<br \/>\nWesir! Wesir!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us,<br \/>\nbull of the Two Sisters, beloved!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us &#8212;<br \/>\nWesir! Wesir! Wesir!<\/p>\n<p>Gracious, gentle ruler,<br \/>\nPrince of the Pesedjet,<br \/>\nsend the flooding river &#8212;<br \/>\ngrant us life, great Wesir!<br \/>\nGreater than Your mother,<br \/>\nfrom the house of Serqet<br \/>\nYou rise like a pillar &#8212;<br \/>\ngrant us life, great Wesir!<\/p>\n<p>Aset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us,<br \/>\nwith alabaster skin, hair of turquoise!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us &#8212;<br \/>\nWesir! Wesir!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us,<br \/>\ncome into Your house, beautiful boy!<br \/>\nAset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us &#8212;<br \/>\nWesir! Wesir! Wesir!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><font size=-2><i>Notes<\/i>: Written in November 2010. <i>Iaru<\/i>: the Field of Reeds in the Duat, the location of the afterlife. <i>Abdju<\/i>: Abydos, the sacred city that&#8217;s home to the Great Temple of Wesir. <i>Pesedjet<\/i>: the Ennead, the nine great gods of Heliopolis. <i>Greater than Your mother\/from the house of Serqet<\/i>: derived from traditional epithets of Wesir (&#8220;Mightier than his mother,&#8221; &#8220;He who dwells in the house of Serqet&#8221;; the latter is possibly an astrological reference). <i>Aset and Nebt-het sing&#8230;<\/i>: the choruses derive heavily from the Lamentations of Aset and Nebt-het, translated in T. Siuda, <i>The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song for Wesir &#169; 2011 Natalie Baan Night sun for the Akhu, shining in the Duat, splendid in Iaru &#8212; hear our prayers, great Wesir! You Who dwell in Abdju, sovereign of the Two Lands smile on those who love You &#8212; hear our prayers, great Wesir! Aset and Nebt-het sing, Come to us, beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wesir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}