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

hymn of the twelfth hour of the day: "Hail in peace, Ra, the eye of Atum has joined you, and you have hidden in its coils.'

m The third motif of the Budapest papyrus, i.e. the sun disc including the wdlt-eye placed on the sun barque thus conveys a complex symbolism. The disc containing the eye and resting between the twin mountains of the horizons incarnates the male principle. The female principle, on the other hand, is symbolised by the duality of the horizons, one of which refers to the receiver

—the mother goddess, while the other, eastern one alludes to the divine daughter to be born at dawn. In those cases, as here, however, when the sun disc itself becomes the receiver of the god (i.e. the h> of Re), it can be considered as the representative of the female principle (Solar Eye) at the same time.

94 5. ON THE BORDER OF THE EASTERN HORIZON (SCHLUSSZENE) (FIG. 6) The horizon appearing in the third scene in the form of a hieroglyphic sign also alludes to the locale of the last scene that concludes and summarizes the aforementioned. The "great god" who managed to triumph over the snake of Non-Existence (Apophis), having come into being (hpr) from the Abyss, will be born from the womb of the sky goddess (msi)'

h and starts to emit light on the eastern horizon in the shape of a disc pushed by the scarab while temporarily FUNERARY PAPYRUS: CLOSING SCENE, BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS