Current Research in Egyptology 2009, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium, University of Liverpool, 2010
The representations on the walls of private tombs of the Old Kingdom include a ritualised crossin... more The representations on the walls of private tombs of the Old Kingdom include a ritualised crossing of a lake as a stage in the deceased's funeral procession from his house to the burial place. This crossing was accompanied by recitations of sAxw texts. The deceased's journey over the Lake of Knives in the New Kingdom Book of the Dead and Sun Hymns was also accompanied by recitations of ritual texts. The Lake of Knives was one of the places which the deceased as the sun god Re had to cross in his journey to the hereafter. Pictorial and textual evidence will be presented to show how the crossing of the lake in the Old Kingdom private tombs and in the Old and Middle Kingdoms texts can be related to the deceased 's crossing over the Lake of Knives. This paper also investigates how the crossing of the lake can be compared with the crossing of the sun god Re over the waters of the sky, and how the recitations which accompanied the crossing of the lake mediate the deceased's passage over water.
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VII, 386a-391a) as a description for the passage of the
deceased from this life to the next. The main aim here
is to argue that although the ‘Book of the Two Ways’
might be thought of as a guide book showing the
deceased the ways to the netherworld, it can also be
described as a ritual book. It is not my aim to deal with
the whole spell, but the focus here will be on (CT VII,
386a-391a) as evidence for Solar-Osirian parallelism
in Egyptian Coffin Texts. The paper also argues that
although that CT spell 1099 is a description for the
journey of the deceased through the sky as a follower
of Re, its ritual actions also allude to Osirian aspects
the Two Ways, and which is also reflected in BD 144. The paper also considers the textual transmission of the text corpus, and how a mortuary text can be easily transposed into a temple liturgical text.
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VII, 386a-391a) as a description for the passage of the
deceased from this life to the next. The main aim here
is to argue that although the ‘Book of the Two Ways’
might be thought of as a guide book showing the
deceased the ways to the netherworld, it can also be
described as a ritual book. It is not my aim to deal with
the whole spell, but the focus here will be on (CT VII,
386a-391a) as evidence for Solar-Osirian parallelism
in Egyptian Coffin Texts. The paper also argues that
although that CT spell 1099 is a description for the
journey of the deceased through the sky as a follower
of Re, its ritual actions also allude to Osirian aspects
the Two Ways, and which is also reflected in BD 144. The paper also considers the textual transmission of the text corpus, and how a mortuary text can be easily transposed into a temple liturgical text.