Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

ÉVA LIPTAY: Éva Liptay "My Face Is (That of) Ra"

4 THE DIVINE TAGE HIDDEN INSIDE THE OTHERWORDLY CAVERN (AFTER HORNUNG 1981. ABB. 8) concept of the divine heart (sii) or the creative power of the declaration by divine words (hw), here the catalyst of the process is a further part of the body (to be more exact, the head), i.e. the Eye as the symbol of the imagination or visualisation.

21 The role of the sun god's eyes are further emphasized by the Cracow analogy of the iconographical motif:

22 on the right side where the god's face is represented en face inside the sun disc, above the head the hieroglyphic sign of the eye is added to the composition, referring at the same time both to the revelation of the divine face / nature with which the glorified deceased becomes identifiable after death and to the opened divine eyes of the creator emanating magic power. In one of the versions of the Schlußszene of the Book of Caverns (in the tomb of Ramesses VI) the central group of motifs depicting the cosmic events taking place at sunrise is flanked by symmetrical lateral representations where a bearded god bends over a chthonic mound (a krrt cavern) painted in black containing the sun disc remaining in its netherworldly resi-