Image code: 30311

Book of the Earth: raising the sun and mummified figures

Book of the Earth. Top from the left. A head and a pair of arms emerge from the depths. The arms support two goddesses called West and East. Above the head is one called the Annihilator with her arms raised lifting a sun disc. The arms are flanked by three mummies. A mummified god with a solar disc above his head is flanked by Shu, Tefnut, Khepri and Nun. A mummified god with ram's horns and two feathers on his head called 'the guardian of the bodies'. The god is flanked by two mummies on whose heads are four discs with other mummy figures inside. Bottom from left. Mummy of the solar god flanked by cobras and two arms raising the solar disc and two figures offering two small discs. Representation of two mummies. On the head of the one on the right is a solar disc from which the head and front legs of a beetle emerge, while on the one on the left is a praying goddess.

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