Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E. A. Wallis Budge
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at the stern, floating at the end of a canal; in it is a flight of
steps. The place where it lies is called the "Domain of Neth." 16. Two Pools, the names of which are illegible. The scene as given in the Papyrus of Ani [Footnote: Brit. Mus., No. 10,470, Plate 35] gives some interesting variants and may be described thus:-- 1. Ani making an offering before a hare-headed god, a snake-headed god, and a bull-headed god; behind him stand his wife Thuthu and Thoth holding his reed and palette. Ani paddling a boat. Ani addressing a hawk, before which are a table of offerings, a statue, three ovals, and the legend, "Being at peace in the Field, and having air for the nostrils." 2. Ani reaping corn, Ani driving the oxen which tread out the corn; Ani addressing (_or_ adoring) a Bennu bird perched on a stand; Ani seated holding the _kherp_ sceptre; a heap of red and a heap of white corn; three KAU and three KHU, which are perhaps to be read, "the food of the spirits;" and three Pools. 3. Ani ploughing a field near a stream which contains [Illustration: The Elysian Fields of the Egyptians according to the Papyrus of Ani (XVIIIth dynasty).] neither fish, nor serpents, nor worms of any kind whatsoever. 4. The birthplace of the "god of the city;" an island on which is a flight of steps; a region called the "place of the spirits" who are seven cubits high, where the wheat is three cubits high, and where the S[=A]HU, or spiritual bodies, reap it; the region Ashet, the god who dwelleth therein being Un-nefer (_i.e._, a form of Osiris); a |
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