Corvidius Wrote:
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> Hans_lune Wrote:
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> > ...or is it modern art?
> >
> >
> [img.tineye.com]
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> Byrd has precisely nailed this, though I will just
> add that it represents the rejoining of the soul
> with the body, of Ra that is of course. The actual
> mechanics of now Ra and Sokar-Osiris "merge" is,
> apart from on the second shrine of Tutankhamun,
> which is, er, enigmatic, is hidden within the
> hidden chamber, only alluded to, or so vague as to
> not explain anything at all. This scene in the
> Sixth Hour is then the first appearance of the
> regenerated, but technically still dead Ra, he is
> still called "Flesh" as well as being called
> Khepri.

AE theological and ritual thought could get very complicated, couldn't it ...

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