the gods of each of the four quarters of heaven, and to make him their equal. In the last line of the passage, “Thy mouth is the mouth of the sucking-calf on the day of his birth,” we appear to have an allusion to the calf figured in the Vignettes to Chapter CIX. of the Book of the Dead, which is entitled “The Chapter of knowing the Souls of the East.” In the Theban Recension we see the deceased standing in adoration before Rā-Harmachis, between whom and the deceased is a spotted calf. In the Saïte Recension the deceased stands in adoration before the Boat of Rā, which is about to pass between the two “Trees of Emerald” into the sky. In the Boat are : 1. Rā-Harmachis, with the sign for wind above his disk,
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. 2. The deceased. 3. A calf with a star above his back. The text tells us that the Souls of the East are Rā-Harmachis, the Calf of the goddess Kherȧ(?),[1] and Neter-ṭuai, or the planet Venus. The “Sucking-calf” must therefore be the name of a morning star which was associated with the rising sun, and with Isis as a morning star. It seems clear, then, that the passage in the Liturgy signifies that the deceased is identified in it with the star which was born in the sky at sunrise; as its mother was Isis the star was a form of Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, and the deceased is therefore the son of Osiris, that is, Horus.
- ↑ Theban,
(?); Saïte,
