Rather interesting item. It specifically extols the one god and could apply to a newly christian community. In practice this whole mass of materiel makes no mention of serious secondary Gods and suggests that Monotheism was central to Egyptian thought as well.
Certainly the Hebrew Bible says as much and this is likely source material to that. This material also does carry information from before the Pleistocene Nonconformity when an understanding of GOD would match mine. This is no Greek or Norse Mythos at all.
I would like to see an open scholarly debate on all this. I suspect we have gotten a lot wrong in past considerations. Consider the legendary nature of Sumerian docs and Greek docs....
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
THE MARRIAGE SONG
O devotee of a love that rises above the mire of
matter and flowers in realms where romantic love is glorified! O daughter of love and sweet mistress of life, now
is the hour of your fulfilment. Prepare to accept the sceptre of womanhood as becomes a true maiden, prepare to
accept the burdens and pleasures of motherhood as becomes a true woman. Verily you are a disciple of love.
Earth knows no greater joy than that of
contented wedded love. Such love is a beaconlight to all mankind, it guides the caravan of its journeying with a pure
and sacred flame. Sweet, hallowed love has a temple in the heart of every chaste maiden, and all men worship the
mystery enshrined within. O resolute priestess and guardian, you are now worthy of the white crown of love.
Great has been your inspiration to man. Well
have you fulfilled the duty of maidenhood, now step forward to accept the joyful burden of womanhood, the crown
that proclaims you a wife. Marriage is sanctified by ancient tradition, for it has survived the tests of time
and turmoil. It has ever been the anchor of society and the shield of the family.
Loveliness belongs to all women, for it is the
heritage of womanhood. Beauty of face and form is carried away by the passing years, but the beauty of heart
and thought grows as the waters rise and fall. The glorious charms of modesty and purity can be possessed by any
woman.
Weave a mantle of contentment around your chosen
mate, O gentle bearer of womanly charms. Remember that you are the mother of generations yet unborn.
Maidenhood, wifehood and motherhood, these are the phases of a woman's life. A chaste maiden becomes a good
wife and a good wife becomes a good mother. Thus it is written.
May The Great God whom you now worship spread
His protecting wings over you, and may you enjoy the companionship of many children. May your life be
enwrapped in peace and contentment, and may it be attended by the four bearers of prosperity.
O son of strength and goodness, remember always
your obligations and duties as a husband and father. Love belongs nowhere but beside your own hearth, for
what foolishness it would be for a man to expend it on one other than his wife! That which a man gives to
his wife is his also, a love truly shared is joy multiplied. He who sows beside his own hearth reaps a manifold
harvest.
Be not harsh with your wife or impatient because
of her weaknesses, for her ways are those of all women. Be gentle with her, remembering that the dart of
love cannot penetrate a hard and inconsiderate heart.
Love is a treasure unearthed by few. It is found
by less than one in a thousand. Yet, where it is let it be held sacred, for it is the decree of a divine destiny
uniting one to the other in ever increasing glory and beauty, as they rise from life to life.
Is not every part of the Earth paired with its
mate? Even Heaven and Earth are mated, for does not Earth cherish and nourish whatever Heaven lets fall? When
Earth lacks heat Heaven bestows it bountifully upon her, and when she loses her freshness and withers. Heaven
restores her freshness with gentle soothing waters.
Heaven daily goes about the task of sustaining
Earth, she is never neglected. Therefore, take an example from the greater sphere of life, sustain and cherish
your wife, that she never be neglected. He who sows seeds of discontent before his hearth reaps a full
harvest of misery. Thus it is written by the Wise One in olden times, even so it is now and will always be.
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