By George Hart
The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses includes probably the most finished listings and outlines of Egyptian deities. Now in its moment variation, it offers: a brand new advent up to date entries and 4 new entries on deities names of the deities as Hieroglyphs a survey of gods and goddesses as they seem in classical literature an elevated chronology and up-to-date bibliography, including an inventory of suitable web pages drawings of the gods and logos of every district a map of historic Egypt and a time chart providing a vibrant photograph of the complexity and richness of images in Egyptian mythology, scholars learning old Egypt, tourists, viewers to museums and all these drawn to mythology will locate this a useful source.
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On the death of Apis Egypt mourned as if for the loss of the monarch himself. The bull was mummified on lionheaded alabaster tables some of which survive at Memphis. The funeral was an occasion of display and pomp, with men dragging to the tomb the sledge on which the embalmed and bejewelled bull had been placed in a couchant position. The burial place was in the northern quarter of the desert plateau of Saqqara, the necropolis overlooking the capital Memphis where Apis had lived. Vast underground catacombs, discovered in 1851 by Mariette and popularly known as the Serapeum, were Apophis 31 cut for the successive bull burials.
32 Arensnuphis his journey in the solar boat through the Underworld. His indestructibility is such that he at once returns as a malevolent force trying to devour RA and his supporters. It is at the point when the sun-god subdues Apophis temporarily that the heads of his previous victims appear from his body. A scene in the tomb of Ramesses VI (Dynasty XX) in the Valley of the Kings shows the snake carried by gods, and with the twelve heads of those it has devoured emerging from its coils. Once Ra has passed by the heads are destined to return into the body of Apophis until freed again briefly on the next night.
A just person whose heart in the balance against the goddess of Truth (MAAT) reflects an upright life will be declared ‘true of voice’ and fit for Paradise. Someone whose heart is weighed down with crime will be consigned to the Devourer of the Dead (AMMUT). In the funerary papyri which we popularly term Book of the Dead, Spell 125 lists their names and places of origin, which can either be strictly geographical or atmospheric. In each instance there follows a denial made by the deceased of a specific sin that might have been committed – hence the expression ‘negative confession’ used modernly to describe this event.