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English: We know from the Book of the Dead, and other Egyptian texts, that a stork, heron or egret called the benu was one of the sacred symbols of the worship of Heliopolis, and A. Wiedemann (“Die Phönix-Sage im alten Aegypten” in Zeitschrift für ægyptische Sprache, xvi. 89) has made it tolerably clear that the benu was a symbol of the rising sun, whence it is represented as “self-generating” and called “the soul of Ra (the sun),” “the heart of the renewed Sun.” |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | “Phoenix,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 21, 1911, p. 457 (in-text hieroglyph). | |||
| Author | Unknown author | |||
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