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Tomb of Ramesses V-VI
Tomb of Ramesses V-VI

Amduat, fourth hour, Detail
In the darkness of the wasteland of Rosetau the winged sun disk is called Khepri. The Khepri beetle points ahead in time to the agility and livelines of the Sungod in his juvenile form. The winged god appears still in the firmament of the nocturnal sky for the time being, but his renewal has not jet reached the clarity of daylight. The fourteen heads, each with a sun disk above it and a a star below it also express the consolation afforded by the sparkle of the nocturnal sky with its mild radiation of light in this gloomy region in the netherworld. The preceding figure called ' He who is in heaven' belongs to the nocturnal sky, as does the godess Maat at the end of the register. Her presence unambiguously demonstrates that the divine orderof creation does not cease in this dark region, however unpleasant it might be.
(Andreas Schweizer, Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat, 1994) "Amduat" was the name given by the Egyptians to these "Books of the Netherworld". Contemporary egyptologists only use this name to designate the first book of the collection, the Book of the Hidden Chamber, threatened by the powers of darkness. The latter try to stop the cyclic flow of the Solar force, visualized as the Solar Bark stranding on land & sand. Rosetau, the "Land of Sokar, who us upon his sand" (Amduat, Fourth Hour) is the central theme of the nocturnal journey of Re. In this and consecutive temporal areas of the netherworld, the midnight mystery occurs and a new day is born.
In the Amduat, this process "Salvation is the overcoming of the forces of stasis and dissolution. (...) The mystery of solar rebirth is in fact the central salvational element in Egyptian religion. Whereas the Greeks were fascinated by the harmony of the whole, the Egyptians fixed their attention upon the process of ongoing vindication and rebirth. To them the cosmos appears as the quintessence of the death-defying fullness of life, as well a chaos-banishing force of order." - Assmann, 2002, p.209.

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