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Identifier: cu31924092320518 (find matches)
Title: The gods of the Egyptians : or, Studies in Egyptian mythology
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Mythology, Egyptian
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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MkZ ^ ^ S ^ i^i ^^ *^^ ^^*®^ Recensions of the Booh ofthe Dead. From a number of other passages we find that Aaru orSekhet-Aaru was divided into a number of districts, the chief ofwhich was called Sekhet-hetepet, l\l\l\ ^~^^ A4^, ^•^•> Field of Offerings, or Seehet-hetep, uM ^ =^=, i.e., Field of Peace, and was presided over by the god Seehti-hetep, To the south of this region lay Seehet-Sanehemu, ()^()j) ^ ^ .^ ^ ^ I ■■^■ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^® Grasshoppers, ^ and init AYere the Lakes of the Tuat, ^~~^ ^~~^ ^~~^ ^-=^ jT) ^ and the Lakes of the Jackals, ^ ^^ ^^^J^^°_ In thewaters of Aaru, or Sekhet-Aaru, Ra purified himself (Pepi I.,line 234), and it was here that the deceased also purified himselfbefore he began his heavenly life; here also dwelt the three classesof beings who are called Akhemu-seku, Akhemu-Betesh, andAkhemu-Sesh-emau,^ that is to say, three classes of celestial bodies J See Book of the Dead, oxxv. Pt. iii., 1. 19 ^tr THE SEKHET-HETEPU (FROM THE PAPYRUS OF ANl
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ANI Ploughing and Reaping and OF THE ELYSIAN FIELDS us. No. 10.470, SHEET 35).)
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