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Amentet; an account of the gods, amulets & scarabs of the ancient Egyptians (1915)

Knight, Alfred Ernest, 1861-1934 · London, Longmans, Green, [etc.] · leaf 117

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s, ‘ I shall stand up like Horus, I shall sit down like Ptah, I shall be mighty like Thoth, and I shall be strong like Tern.’ From chapter xxiii. we learn that Shu or Ptah performed the ceremony of ‘ opening the mouth ’ of the gods with an iron knife ; in chapter xlii. the feet of the deceased are… … clxx. this god is said to give him help with his khakeru, weapons from his divine house. In a hymn to Osiris (chapter xv.) Osiris is addressed as Un- nefer Heru-khuti, and as ‘ Ptah-Seker-Tem , in Annu, the lord of the hidden place, and the creator of Het-ka-Ptah

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