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Level 8 - Vociferous
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: south africa
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Re: aenima- problem 8
BOOK OF THE EARTH
This title was chosen by Hornung (1999). Piankoff had "The Creation of the Sun Disk", and Altenmüller "Book of Aker". The original title is missing. There is no division into the hours and the Solar Barque is largely absent. The division in registers is uncertain. The book is exclusively found in the sarcophagus chambers of royal Ramesside tombs.
Osiris "in his coffer" again plays the leading role, as does the transformation of Re and an expanded version of the eleventh scene of the Book of Gates and its "barque of the Earth".
BOOK OF THE NIGHT
The earliest version is found on the ceiling of the sarcophagus chamber of Pharaoh Seti I, but it only reaches the ninth hour. Only the tomb of Ramesses VI provides us with two complete versions. It is divided in 12 sections separated from one another by vertical lines called "gates", which precede the hours to which they belong.
In the Solar Barque, Re is surrounded by the Mehen-serpent and the crew consists of Sia at the prow, Hu at the stern and Maat. Descriptive texts are lacking, and the registers are not divided into scenes. The crucial motif of the union of Re and Osiris is absent.
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