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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 138

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AMENTET 120 into heaven by means of a ladder which Ra provided. Hence, in the Pyramid text of Pepi I. we read : “ Homage to thee, 0 divine Ladder ! Homage to thee, 0 Ladder of Set ! Stand thou upright, 0 divine Ladder ! Stand thou upright, O Ladder of Set ! Stand thou upright, O Ladder of Horus,… … SET. lator of the strife, was called Ap-rehu, i.e, ^ Judge of the two opponent gods.’” Of the murder of Osiris by Set we have already treated (vide Osmis, p. 91), and have elsewhere touched upon his persecution of Isis, his conflict or series of conflicts with Horus, and his final defeat at the…

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