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THE PURIFICATION BY WATER
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called “Incense of the South.” The Ka whose statue had been purified by incense from each place was free to journey through the North and South of Egypt, and in a sense it made him “lord of the Two Lands,” i.e., of all Egypt. The priest, having dissolved the balls of natron in the water in the vessel,
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, poured it out into
The Sem priest pouring water from a libation vase into a libation bowl held by a ministrant.
a bowl held by an assistant. He then took the bowl, and, going round the statue four times, sprinkled it with the water of the natrons of the South and North, whilst the Kher ḥeb repeated the following words four times:--
“This libation is for thee, O Osiris, this libation is
