Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list / by E.A. Wallis Budge.

  • E. A. Wallis Budge
Date:
1899
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Credit: Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list / by E.A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before Seh citer-f tut art - k Seb ; he destroyed the evil belonging to thee CiM] ^ Pepi pu %er Tern Pepi this before Tern. The above passage is an address made to the dead king Pepi by the priest which declares that he is cere- monially pure and fit for heaven. The ka, ba and sekhem, were the ^klouble” of a man, his soul, and the power which animated and moved the spiritual body in heaven; the entire economy of a man consisted of khat body, ka double, ha soul, khaihit shadow, khu spirit, dh heart, sekhem. power, ren name, and sahu spiritual body. The reference to the bringing of the bones seems to refer to the dismemberment of bodies which took place in pre-dynastic times, and the mention of the re- ceiving of the head refers to the decapitation of the dead which was practised in the earliest period of Egyptian history. Nut was the mother of the gods and Seb was her husband ; Tern or Temu was the setting sun, and, in funeral texts, a god of the dead.
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