- Author
- Wiktionary user Tomispev
- Published
- Last edited 11 February 2023
- Kind
- Wiktionary user draft, with translations by Allen and Faulkner
- Original
- en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Tomispev/Coffin_Texts_Spell_714
- Subject
- Occult, myth and religion
What it is
A user subpage on Wiktionary, kept by a contributor named Tomispev. It gives Spell 714 in three parts: creation's background, its evolution and an incomplete ending. The hieroglyphic text is copied from de Buck and shown in transliteration.
What it says
- Spell 714 survives only on one inner coffin, now in the British Museum.
- The translations are marked A for Allen and F for Faulkner.
- Allen renders the opening as a speaker who is the Waters, without second.
- Allen has the speaker say it made itself and built itself as it wished.
- Allen's line about the Flood being subtracted from the speaker carries a Genesis cross-reference.
- The last section is marked incomplete and is given only in Faulkner's translation.
What evidence it gives
The page offers the text and two published translations, line by line. It lists four references. It makes no argument of its own beyond one Genesis cross-reference placed in Allen's line.
Interests and limits
This is an unfinished user draft, not a reviewed Wiktionary entry. The translations belong to Allen and Faulkner, not to the page's contributor. The page is short. The hieroglyph graphics were not viewed, only the transliteration text. It does not explain what the spell was used for.