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Dilogo con su alma

Un ejemplo precioso es el Dilogo con su alma de un hombre cansado de la vida que seencuentra en el papiro Berln 3.024:la muerte est hoy ante mcomo la curacin de una enfermedad,como un paseo tras el sufrimiento.La muerte est hoy ante mcomo el perfume de la mirra,como el reposo bajo una vela en un da de gran viento. como un camino tras la lluviacomo un retorno a casa despus de una guerra lejana

Spoke to my soul that I might answer what it said:

To whom shall I speak today?

Brothers and sisters are evil and friends today are not worth loving.

Hearts are great with greed and everyone seizes his or her neighbor's goods.

Kindness has passed away and violence is imposed on everyone.


People willingly accept evil and goodness is cast to the ground everywhere.

Those who should enrage people by their wrongdoing

make them laugh at their evil deeds.

People plunder and everyone seizes _his or her neighbor's goods.


The one doing wrong is an intimate friend and the brother with whom one used to deal is an enemy.

No one remembers the past and none return the good deed that is done.

Brothers and sisters are evil

and people turn to strangers for righteousness or affection.


Faces are empty and all turn their faces from their brothers and sisters.

Hearts are great with greed

and there is no heart of a man or woman upon which one might lean.


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None are just or righteous and the land is left to the doers of evil.


There are no intimate friends

and the people turn to strangers to tell their troubles.

None are content and those with whom one used to walk no longer exist.

I am burdened with grief and have no one to comfort me.

There is no end to the wrong which roams the earth.

I face death today like a sick man regaining health,

like one coming out after imprisonment.

I face death today like the scent of myrrh,

like sitting before the sail on a windy day.

I face death today like the scent of the lotus,

like sitting on the edge of drunkenness.

I face death today like a familiar road,

like a man returning home from the battlefield.

I face death today like the clearing of the sky,

like a man discovering the unknown.

I face death today like a man eager to see his home

after many years in captivity.

Surely, one who reaches the beyond will be a living god,

punishing the offenses of the wrongdoer.

Surely, one who reaches the beyond

will be one who stands in the Sun Bark of Ra,

causing abundant gifts to be given to the temples.

Surely, one who reaches the beyond

will be considered wise and will not be prevented


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from appealing to Ra when he or she speaks.

And my soul said to me.

Cast your complaints aside,

my comrade and brother.

Make offerings on the sacrificial fire

and cling to life as I have said.

Love me, your soul, here.

Set aside thoughts of death and desire death

only when your body joins the earth. Then

will alight on you after you have become truly weary

and we shall dwell together forever.

[...] you in order to say [...] their [tongues] cannot question, for it will be crookedness [...] paymentstheir tongues cannot question.

I opened my mouth to my soul, that I might answer what it had said: / This is too much for metoday, that my soul does not argue with me; it is too great for [exaggeration], it is as if one ignored

me. Let my soul not depart, that it may attend to it for me [...] in my body like a net of cord, / but itwill not succeed in escaping the day of trouble. See, my soul misleads me, but I do not listen to it;draws me toward death ere have come to it and casts on the fire to burn me [...] / itapproaches me on the day of trouble and it stands on yonder side as does a ... Such is he who goesforth that he may bring himself for him. O my soul, too stupid to ease misery in life and yet holdingme back from death ere I come to it, sweeten / the West for me. Is it (to much) trouble? Yet life is atransitory state, and even trees fall. Trample on wrong, for my misery endures. May Thoth whopacifies the gods judge me; may Khons defend me, / even he who writes truly; may Re hear myplaint, even he who commands the solar bark; may Isdes defend me in the Holy Chamber, [because]the needy one is weighed down with [the burden] which he has lifted up from me; it is pleasant that/ the gods should ward off the secret (thoughts) of my body.

What my soul said to me: Are you not a man? Indeed you are alive, but what do you profit? Yet youyearn for life like a man of wealth.

I said: I have not gone, (even though) that is on the ground. Indeed, you leap away, but you will / notbe cared for. Every prisoner says: "I will take you," but you are dead, though your name lives. Yonderis a resting place attractive to the heart; the West is a dwelling place, rowing [...] face. If my guiltlesssoul listens to me / and its heart is in accord with me, it will be fortunate, for I will cause it to attainthe West, like one who is in his pyramid, to whose burial a survivor attended. I will [...over] yourcorpse, so that you make another soul envious / in weariness. I will...., then you will not be cold, sothat you make envious another soul which is hot. I will drink water at the eddy, I will raise up shadeso that you make envious another soul which is hungry. If/ you hold me back from death in thismanner, you will find nowhere you can rest in the West. Be so kind, my soul, my brother, as to

become my heir who shall make offering and stand at the tomb on the day of burial, that he mayprepare a bier / for the necropolis.


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To whom can I speak today?Brothers are evilAnd the friends of today unlovable.

To whom can I speak / today?Hearts are rapaciousAnd everyone takes his neighbor's goods.

Gentleness has perishedAnd the violent man has come down on everyone.

To whom can I speak today?Men are contented with evilAnd goodness is neglected everywhere.

To whom can I speak / Today?He who should enrage a man by his ill deeds,he makes everyone laugh his wicked wrongdoing.

To whom can I speak today?Men plunderAnd every man robs his neighbor.

To whom can I speak today?The wrongdoer is an intimate friendAnd the brother with whom one used to act is become / an enemy.

To whom can I speak today?

None remember the past,And no one now helps him who used to do (good).

To whom can I speak today?Brothers are evil,And men have recourse to strangers for affection.

To whom can I speak today?Faces are averted,And every man looks askance at / his brethren.


Hearts are rapaciousAnd there is no man's heart in which one can trust.

To whom can I speak today?There are no just personsAnd the land is left over to the doers of wrong.

To whom can I speak today?There is a lack of an intimate friendAnd men have recourse to someone unknown / in order to complain to him.


There is no contented man,And that person who once walked with him no longer exists.


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To whom can I speak today?I am heavy-laden with troubleThrough lack of an intimate friend.

To whom can I speak today?The wrong which roams the earth,/ There is no end to it.

Death is in my sight today a sick man becomes well,Like going out-of-doors after detention.

Death is in my sight todayLike the smell of myrrh,Like sitting under an awning on a windy day.

Death is in my sight today/ Like the perfume of lotuses,Like sitting on the shore of the Land of Drunkenness.

Death is in my sight todayLike a trodden way,As when a man returns home from an expedition.

Death is in my sight todayLike the clearing of the sky,Like a man who.../... for something which he does not know.

Death is in my sight today.As when a man desires to see homeWhen he has spent many years in captivity.

Verily, he who is yonder will be a living god,Averting the ill of him who does it.

Verily, he who is yonder will be one who stands in the Bark of the Sun,Causing choice things to be given / therefrom for the temples.

Verily, he who is yonder will be a sageWho will not be prevented from appealing to Re when he speaks.

What my soul said to me: Cast complaint upon the peg, my comrade and brother; make offering onthe brazier / and cleave to life, according as I have said. Desire me here, thrust the West aside, butdesire that you may attain the West when your body goes to earth, that I may alight after you areweary; then will we make an abode together.

It is finished / from its beginning to its end, just as it was found in writing.

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