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Level 8 - Vociferous
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: south africa
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Re: aenima- problem 8
First Hour - note the absence of the Solar Bark in the upper middle register
sarcophagus chamber of the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep II - ca. 1400 BCE.
The long title of the Book of the Hidden Chamber begins with : "writings of the hidden chamber". This is the first completely illustrated book in recorded history, for visual elements, like sequences of drawings and textual material form a solid unity. The book is divided in 12 Hours along the nocturnal arc of the Sun, from dusk till dawn. Each hour, except the first, has a horizontal heading summarizing its significant events, use and direction. A vertical introduction, dividing the hours, mentions the names of the hour, their gateways and areas of the Duat. Only the first three hours have concluding texts. Retrograde writing is preferred, and representations are mostly to be read in reverse. Each hour is divided in three registers. The middle one depicts the Solar Bark, center stage in the storyline. The upper and lower registers represent the left & right banks of the netherworldly Nile. At times the registers interlace. All these changes are part of the sacred geometry and its spatial semantics directly influencing, as in a strip, the intended meanings.
In addition to the long version of the text, a short version or summary is found in the tombs and on papyri, called by Maspero (1893) and Jéquier (1894) "abridged", from "sehuy", "summary". In it, important names on the individual hours are listed and further remarks on their usefulness. It contains no pictures and is appended to the book as a kind of concluding chapter.
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