Scenes from the Book of Gates
Scenes from the Book of Gates. Upper register: tenth hour. A god with a human body, outstretched arms and the double head of Horus/the falcon and the animal of Seth (symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt) stands above an animal with a falcon head and a human head both with white Upper Egyptian crowns. On the right a deity clutches a rope to which is tied a staff with a human head and red crown. The four deities with red crowns of Lower Egypt do the same. They are the gods of the North (on the opposite side four other gods of the South). Behind them a god grasps a snake with three heads at each end and a pair of legs on each. Middle Register: eleventh hour. The sun god in the form of a sun disc with uraeus is carried on his boat. In front of him four star gods lift a star in the air with their right hand while with their left they drag the sun boat. They attend the rebirth of the sun. Four kneeling gods, each with an uraeus above his head, are Horus, Sereq, Abesh and Sekhet. Behind them the god Unti 'god of the hour' carries a star while a group of gods behind him pulls the solar boat with a rope. Lower register: tenth hour. On the right the sun god is represented as a hawk with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt on a large snake with cobra heads at both ends. On the left, a two-legged serpent is held by a rope held by a theory of deities with human bodies and ram, falcon, ibis and human heads.
