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TIIE ABODE OE THE BLESSED.
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his course along his mother’s body, until he set in the west in the evening. The
moon followed the sun’s course along his mother’s body, but sometimes a second
female is represented bowed beneath Nut1 (Fig. 2), and this is believed to signify
the night sky across which the moon travels. In an interesting picture which
M. Jequier has published2 the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms
stretched out at full length above her head ; on her breast is the disk of the
sun, and on her stomach the moon. Those who believed that the sky was an
iron plane imagined that the stars were a numbers of lamps which were hung
out therefrom, and those who pictured the sky as a goddess studded her body
with stars. One scene makes the morning and evening boats of Ra to sail
along the back of Nut;3 another depicts Shu holding up the boat of the sun
wherein is the disk on the horizon cQi.4 A third from the sarcophagus of Seti I.
represents Nu the god of the primeval water holding up the boat of the sun,
wherein we see the beetle with the solar disk facing it accompanied by Isis and
Nephthys, who stand one on each side ; behincl Isis stand the gods Seb, Shu,
Hek, Hu, and Sa, and behind Nepnthys are three deities who represent the
doors through which the god Tmu has made his way to the world.6
Within the two bowed female figures which represent the day and the night
sky, and which have been referred to above (Fig. 2), is a third figure which is bent
1 Lanzone, op. cit., tav. 155. 2 Le Livre de ce qu’ily a dans I'Hadls, p. 3.
3 Ilnd., tav. 157. Ibid., tav. 158.
6 Brugsch, Religion und Mythologie, p. 216.
The Egyptian
heaven.
The Tuat, or abode
of the dead.
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his course along his mother’s body, until he set in the west in the evening. The
moon followed the sun’s course along his mother’s body, but sometimes a second
female is represented bowed beneath Nut1 (Fig. 2), and this is believed to signify
the night sky across which the moon travels. In an interesting picture which
M. Jequier has published2 the goddess is depicted lying flat with her arms
stretched out at full length above her head ; on her breast is the disk of the
sun, and on her stomach the moon. Those who believed that the sky was an
iron plane imagined that the stars were a numbers of lamps which were hung
out therefrom, and those who pictured the sky as a goddess studded her body
with stars. One scene makes the morning and evening boats of Ra to sail
along the back of Nut;3 another depicts Shu holding up the boat of the sun
wherein is the disk on the horizon cQi.4 A third from the sarcophagus of Seti I.
represents Nu the god of the primeval water holding up the boat of the sun,
wherein we see the beetle with the solar disk facing it accompanied by Isis and
Nephthys, who stand one on each side ; behincl Isis stand the gods Seb, Shu,
Hek, Hu, and Sa, and behind Nepnthys are three deities who represent the
doors through which the god Tmu has made his way to the world.6
Within the two bowed female figures which represent the day and the night
sky, and which have been referred to above (Fig. 2), is a third figure which is bent
1 Lanzone, op. cit., tav. 155. 2 Le Livre de ce qu’ily a dans I'Hadls, p. 3.
3 Ilnd., tav. 157. Ibid., tav. 158.
6 Brugsch, Religion und Mythologie, p. 216.
The Egyptian
heaven.
The Tuat, or abode
of the dead.