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ÉVA LIPTAY: Between Heaven and Earth II: The Iconography of a Funerary Papyrus from the Twenty-First Dynasty (Part II)

See the second figure in the upper register of the tenth hour of the Amduat where the scarab pushes forward an oval-shaped, dotted ball —the Underworld: E. Hornung, Das Amduat. Die Schrift des ver­borgenen Raumes, vol. II, Wiesbaden 1963-1967, 162-63. On the oval-shaped dung ball: Hornung, Amduat II, 105. On the side of another coffin case the human-headed scarab appears with a beaming disc comprising the solar eve under its hind legs: R. V. Lanzone, Dizionario di mitológia egizia, Turin 1881-85, Tav. CCL; W. Schmidt, Sarkofager, Mumiekister, og Mumiehylstre i det garnie Aegypten, Typolo­gisk Atlas, Kobenhavn 1919, fig. 841. The two scarabs that form the organic part of the variants in the tomb of Ramesses IX and the papy­rus of Henuttawi are placed separately in the last scene of the Budapest variant. The two scarabs were discussed in the first part of this article: Liptay 2006, 44-45. See the Twenty-first Dynasty version of the motif of the "cow coming out of the mountain" with the cited literature: E. Liptay, "Between Heaven and Earth. The Motif of the Cow Coming out of the Mountain", Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts 99 (2003), 11-30. "It has been posited that the conception-birth duality may be equated with a mother-daughter con­tinuum, equivalent to the western and eastern horizons" (L. Troy, Patterns of Queensbip in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History (BOREAS 14), Uppsala 1986, 30 and 23). Lexikon der Ägyptologie I, ed. W. Helck and E. Otto, Wiesbaden 1975, 562; J. C. Darneil, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 24 (1997), 35-48. E. Hornung, Die Unterweltsbücher des Ägypter, Zurich and München 1992, 414-15 and Abb. 81; Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen III, 626. Darneil 2004, 417; Lexikon der Ägyptologie I, 563. See Pyr § 475: "Ahoy, Ferryman ! Bring this to Horas, bring bis Eye; bring this to Seth, bring his testicles! There leaps up the Eye of Horns who fell in the east side of the sky, and I will leap up with it, I will travel in the east side of the sky. .." (R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Oxford 1998, 163.) J. F. Borghouts, "The Victorious Eyes: A Structural Analysis of Two Egyptian Mythologizing Texts of the Middle Kingdom", in Studien zu Sprache und Religion Ägyptens. Zu Ehren von IV. Westendorf Göttingen 1984, 710-11. See the upper register of the twelfth hour of the Amduat where twelve goddesses can be seen with fire spitting serpents upon their heads whose aim is to expel Apophis at the entrance of the eastern hori­zon. Cf. the text of a stele from the Libyan period where the deity manifests in the shape of the sun disc on the barque, with the (right) solar eye and two worshipping baboons above him: "...mögest du deine Pupille zu meinem Schutz geben": K. Jansen-Winkeln, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 17 (1990), 217,1.7.

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