Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part II)
However, the disc, whose scarab appears on the eastern horizon, obviously cannot be identical with the disc of the sun pushed forward by its front legs. Nevertheless, it bears a striking resemblance to the motif of the papyrus of Henuttawi, the disc of which includes a wdlt-eye, while above and below two scarabs emerge from it." The same motif was re-used by the Heruben-variant (fig. 5) as well: there the disc, which is closely linked with the ithyphallic deity has already been left by the scarab. 10 In this case the disc is called "the mound of Kheprer" (Hi hpnj. According to the text, it is identified with the Underworld (tl-dsr). Therefore this ball of dung symbolizing the Underworld from which the sun-god's manifestation of dawn comes into existence (in the shape of a scarab) is apparently identical to the "elementary substance" of the god's self-creation and transforms into the disc of the sun at the very moment of creation." The Budapest papyrus seems to combine the above mentioned two depictions of the solar eye and of course the concepts conveyed by them: 1. Its symbolism absorbs the above-mentioned solar barque-motif appearing in the left corner of the middle register of the royal scene where the scarab is flanked by the left and right solar eyes. x\s already alluded to in the first part of the present study, in the latter case the apotropaic role of the two solar eyes comes to the fore: the arrows shot by the left one are directed against Apophis and its fellows, the Nehaher snakes. The body of Apophis itself appears —as mentioned above —under the barque. 2. However, the "passenger" of the snake-headed barque of the Budapest papyrus itself (i.e. the solar eye inside the sun disc), is identical with the divine manifestation applied in the variant of Henuttawi, with the distinction that the wd't-eye placed inside the sun disc is presented here as a part of the ? A/-symbol. 12 It can be stated that both in the case of the Henuttawi version and the Budapest papyrus the motif of the solar eye inside the sun disc refers to the other representation of the royal scene depicting the goddess standing in the sun disc in the right corner of the lower register. 4. 2. 1. THE SOLAR EYE AS DIVINE DAUGHTER (MYTHICAL LEVEL) Idie solar eye placed in the sun disc was simultaneously considered as both the mother and daughter of the sun-god, whose role played in the scene is closely tied to the creation and rebirth that takes place on the eastern horizon. The goddess of the Ramesses IX variant encircled by the disc is an apt pictorial representation of this idea. The sky goddess (Hathor/Nut) was regarded as the receiver of the sun-god into her body in the West, 1 ' from whose womb (itself identified with the realm of the Underworld) the divine
