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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 one of the scenes of the papyrus of Khonsurenep (Piankoff and Rambova 1957, no. 11, fourth scene) where the passenger of the barque is a similar sun disc placed on the horizon, with a ram walk­ing behind, and two ram heads above it. Assmann 1969, 49-52; K. Jansen-Winkeln, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur /7 (1990), 217, line 7. Darnell 2004, 381-84. On the sharing of roles between the uraeus and the regenerative serpent of the chthonic sphere: W. Westendorf, Uräus und Sonnenscheibe, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 6 (1978), 202; on the resurrection inside the sun disc: Barta 1990, 63. Assmann 1969, 49-52; Troy 1986, 22 and 44. S. Quirke, The Cult ofRa. Sun-worship in Ancient Egypt, London 2001, 56. Relating to the figures stand­ing among the coils of the fire-breathing serpent it was mentioned in connection with the sixtieth scene of the Book of Gates where Horus declares to the serpent: "O 'Feuriger' mit großer Glut —du, auf dessen Maul mein Auge ist, dessen Windungen meine Kinder hüten ! Offne dein Maul and klappe deine beiden Kiefer auf, damit du feuer speist in die Feinde meines Vaters /" (Hornung 1992, 272 and n. 45.) W. Westendorf, "Horizont und Sonnescheibe", in Stadia Aegyptiaca I, Budapest 1974, 389-98; Assmann 1969, 49-52. See also Troy 1986, 46. Assmann 1969, 315-18. "Ich bin diese zwei, maskulin und feminin..C (Coffin Texts Spell 136): Mysliwiec 1978-79, I, 104. See also Troy 1986, 21. Darnell 2004, 382-82, 394, 405-06; cf. the Budapest papyrus wdaere the god resides inside the hill of the horizon. On the relationship between Osiris representing the female principle and the eastern horizon see also: van Walsem 1997, 301-02; Barta 1985-86. The hymnic text forming part of the last scene of the papyrus of Djedkhonsiufankh I (Piankoff and Rambova 1957, no. 19) gives a detailed discussion on the complex nature of the deity arriving at the border between the two spheres. According to this he is "Re-Horakhtv-Atum, wdien he rises on the eastern horizon of heaven", "Khepri who is in the flood", "Horus the elder who resides in the hori­zon", "the august creator", "plentiful of light", "Atum, the father of the gods, the All Lord", "the bull, the lord of the palace", see Darnell 2004, 418. T. Bács, "Amun-Re-Harakhti in the Late Ramesside Royal Tombs", in Intellectual Heritage of Egypt. Studies presented to László Käkosy (Stadia Aegyptiaca XIV), Budapest 1992, 43-53; Darnell 2004, 398. Assmann 1969, 80. Darnell 2004, 400-01: water/Nun —earth/Aker/Geb/ r A'/;e/-horizon —air/Shu —light/Khepri with the rising disc of the sun.

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