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Spell 17 — The Three Forms of the Sun

E.A. Wallis Budge, 1895

I am Khepri in the morning, Ra at noon, and Atum in the evening. My transformations are many, but I am one. The great Cat of Heliopolis who dwelt under the Persea tree slew the serpent of darkness, and Ra shone again. Even so I slay my foes in the night and come forth triumphant in the day.