Gods help us all.
... I just rewrote spell 6 of the Book of Going Forth By Day (Egyptian Book of the Dead) as a limerick.
O shabti alotted my load
When there are some fields to be mowed
Or flooding the land
Or carrying sand
Your eager assistance, bestowed.
Original text used as basis:
"O shabti, alotted to me, if I be summoned or if I be detailed to do any work which has to be done in the realm of the dead; if indeed obstacles are implanted for you wherewith as a man at his duties, you shall detail yourself for me on every occasion of making arable the fields, of flooding the banks or of conveying sand from east to west; 'Here am I' you shall say."
O shabti alotted my load
When there are some fields to be mowed
Or flooding the land
Or carrying sand
Your eager assistance, bestowed.
Original text used as basis:
"O shabti, alotted to me, if I be summoned or if I be detailed to do any work which has to be done in the realm of the dead; if indeed obstacles are implanted for you wherewith as a man at his duties, you shall detail yourself for me on every occasion of making arable the fields, of flooding the banks or of conveying sand from east to west; 'Here am I' you shall say."