

The god MER-EX-AAUI-F, in form similar to the preceding.ġ0. The god APT-TAUI, his hands and arms are concealed.ĩ. The god AAUI-F-EM-KHA-NEF, who has two snakes' heads in the place of a human head his hands and arms are concealed.Ĩ. The god NERTA, with both hands raised in adoration.ħ. The god KHNEM-RENIT, ram-headed, holding a sceptre in his right hand, and ankh in his left.Ħ. The god TEPUI, i.e., the "Two-headed" one head faces to the right and the other to the left.ĥ.

The text reads: "TCHET-S herself is above the stars (i.e., the eight stars which are about the heads of the two serpents) her work is to cast the living ones to Ra everyday she then swalloweth her forms in this City of the ELEVENTH HOUR, one of those who follow the god."Ĥ. A serpent, with a mummied god seated on his back above the god is written "TCHET-S," i.e., "its body," and by the tail of the serpent is SHETU. The text reads: "When this god crieth out to him that is in this picture, the form (or, image) of the god Tem proceedeth from his back but afterwards it swalloweth itself (i.e., disappeareth)." The words # may form the name of the winged serpent.ģ. By its side stands a god with a disk upon his head, and on each side of his head is an utchat his hands are stretched out at right angles to his body, and each hand touches the end of one of the serpent's wings. A huge serpent, with two pairs of human feet and legs, and a pair of large wings.

The god APER-HRA-NEB-TCHETTA, above whose body, at the neck, is a disk from which proceed two human heads, the one wearing the White Crown and the other the Red Crown in his right hand he holds the sceptre, and in the left the emblem of "life." The text reads: "He who is in this picture standeth up for Ra, and he never departeth from his place in the Tuat."Ģ. Whosoever shall make an exact copy of these forms according to the representations of the same at the eastern of the hidden Palace of the Tuat, and shall know it, shall be a spirit well equipped both in heaven and earth, unfailingly, and regularly and eternally."ġ. " the hidden Circle of the Tuat through which this god maketh his journey so that he may come forth into the Eastern Horizon of the sky it swalloweth eternally its images (or, forms) in the presence of the god REKH (?), who dwelleth in this City, and then it giveth them to those who are born and come into being in the earth. On his back rests the White Crown, from each side of which projects a bearded human head.Ībove the upper register is a line of text, which reads On his back rests the Red Crown, and in an angle of it is a human head.Ĥ. And Ra saith unto them:-'O ye who keep ward over your serpent-figures with your two hands, lift ye up your heads, whose hands are strong, whose feet are firm, who perform the journeying which ye are bound to make, who make long your steps as ye go, unite ye yourselves to your offerings in the Hall of the Eastern Horizon.' Their work is to make the serpent Mehen to travel to the Eastern Hall of the Horizon, and they unite themselves to their habitations after this great god hath passed through the darkness and hath taken up his place in the horizon."ģ. This god cries unto them by their names, and he decreeth for them what they have to do. "Those who are in this picture are in front of this great god, and they carry the serpent Mehen-ta on their heads into this City, and they travel on-wards in the following of Ra into the Eastern Horizon of the sky.
