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Mind-blowing scenes from the Book of the Earth from the tomb of Ramesses IX (KV 6). With the help of The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth by Joshua Aaron Roberson: the scene with the tall black figure surrounded by smaller figures holding sundiscs, represents “the birth of the hours”. That large figure is labelled “He-Who-Hides-The-Hours”. Perhaps the funnel shape represents a clepsydra, or water-clock. In the third image, there’s a group of manifestations of the sun god, as scarab, scarab-headed god, ram-headed god, and sun disc, with a worshipping baboon; and the eyes and heart of Horus, painted in red inside a black oval.

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Complex cosmic diagrams in the Book of the Earth and the Book of Caverns, from the tomb of Ramesses IX (KV6) - this is the left wall of the sarcophagus chamber. The top photo shows the whole wall. The middle photo depicts the “neck of Re” (the wsr-staff at left), the “corpse of Re” (the ram), and two male figures who turn away from the sundisc to raise their arms in praise to the neck and the corpse.

Courtesy of Meretseger Books.

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A scene from the Book of the Earth in the tomb of Ramesses IX (KV6). At the top right you can just see a black oval containing two red sundiscs with rays coming down on either side of a red oval shape. According to Joshua Roberson in The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth, this is the heart and two eyes of Horus (a similar symbol appears in the Book of Caverns). To the left of that, a mongoose-headed god raises his arms in worship before the sun god manifested as scarab, ram, and disc; at top left, a row of shrew-headed gods greet the sun god. The mongoose and the shrew, remarks Roberson, were paired as the daytime and nighttime, seeing and blind animals associated with Horus of Letopolis (Khenty-irty / Khenty-khem), “the ‘sightless-but-seeing’ god.”

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Egypt. Tomb Paintings. (88) (by pjwar)

A scene from the Book of the Earth in the tomb of Ramesses IX, KV6.

I’ve long wondered about that  odd-looking black oval with antennae on top of the red sundisc at right. It turns out to be the head of a scarab, called “He of the Birth” - that is, the sun god, who creates himself. The larger figures in that bit are Tatenen and Nun - the primordial earth and the primordial waters. So this whole scene depicts the beginning of the world, when the primordial mound and the sun god rose up from the waters. (This is according to Joshua Roberson’s The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth.) For another view of this scene, see here.

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For @ myheavens2betsy, here’s a different view of that tableau from the Book of the Earth in Ramesses IX’s tomb (KV6). The black oval containing a heart hieroglyph flanked by two shining sun-discs is much more easily visible here. (I thought I had a closeup of it somewhere, but I can’t find it!)

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The god Khepri’s name spelled out in hieroglyphs, with a determinative of the god himself, seated, with a winged scarab for a head. From the tomb of Ramesses IX. Courtesy of Meretseger Books.

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