Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E. A. Wallis Budge
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each group he painted six in one and five in the other. In the Turin
papyrus [Footnote: Written in the Ptolemaic period.] we see the whole of the forty-two gods, to whom the deceased recited the [Illustration: The weighing of the heart of the scribe Ani in the Balance in the presence of the gods.] "Negative Confession," seated in the judgment-hall. The gods present at the weighing of Ani's heart are-- 1. R[=A]-HARMACHIS, hawk-headed, the Sun-god of the dawn and of noon. 2. TEMU, the Sun-god of the evening, the great god of Heliopolis. He is depicted always in human form and with the face of a man, a fact which proves that he had at a very early period passed through all the forms in which gods are represented, and had arrived at that of a man. He has upon his head the crowns of the South and North. 3. SHU, man-headed, the son of R[=a] and Hathor, the personification of the sunlight. 4. TEFNUT, lion-headed, the twin-sister of Shu, the personification of moisture. 5. SEB, man-headed, the son of Shu, the personification of the earth. 6. NUT, woman-headed, the female counterpart of the gods Nu and Seb; she was the personification of the primeval water, and later of the sky. 7. ISIS, woman-headed, the sister-wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus. 8. NEPHTHYS, woman-headed, the sister-wife of Osiris, and mother of |
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