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ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part II)
i.e. the daily and nocturnal aspects of the sungod was intended to symbolise the totality of the solar cycle. 82 The enigmatic scene in the tomb of Tutankhamun represents the ram-headed bl-bird (bl spss imy itn - j) surrounded by the sun disc inside the body of the "great god", evidently with the same purpose. 83 The ram-head inside the disc can of course occur in the Twenty-first Dynasty as well, in spite of the fact that this period definitely seems to have insisted on drawing attention to the other possible forms of the bl of Re. On another scene of the ™E VERSION OF THE HERUBEN-PAPYRUS, r , ... AFTER SOURDIVE 1984. PL. LXXVII/F1G. 2 papyrus ot Dirpu —previously mentioned in connection with the phoenix aspect —the ram head returns again in the disc above a hawk standing on the West-hieroglyph and flanked by two further West-signs. 84 In the scene of the papyrus in Warsaw, already cited previously, the motif of the "cow coming out of the mountain" is supplemented by the picture of the nightly barque with a throne encircled by the Mehen above, the rays of which proceed in a downward direction from a ram's head. 85 A quite similar solution —without sun disc —was employed on a coffin case: 86 only the ram head can be seen, and is encircled by the Mehen (uroboros), with the epithet nb Ihf 1 inscribed above it. Under the ram's head a sitting lion and a sycamore tree symbolically represent the horizon. On the basis of the above it is conceivable that the motif of the Budapest papyrus with the sun disc encircling an wdlt-eye and forming part of the íh/-symbol refers to the same divine title. 88 In addition to the sun disc, which was simultaneously identified with the sun-god itself, New Kingdom texts often mention the Solar Eye as the residential place of the nocturnal sun, the pupil of which hides and protects the god during his journey through the Netherworld. 89 In fact, the solar eye (or its manifestation in the shape of a uraeus) and the Mehen placed under the bark have practically the same role both in regard to their connection with the sun-god and their task fulfilled in the Underworld. 90 Both of them encircle the nocturnal aspect of the god who travels through the night inside (m-hnw klb) the solar eye and/or the Mehen snake 9 ' while providing magical protection for it, and both have the essential power to regenerate his powerless body before resurrection. 92 This identity had been drafted in textual form in the
