Image code: 28856

Book of the Earth: solar barque and ithyphallic god

Book of the Earth. Above: the solar barque accompanied by fourteen ram-headed gods with solar disks. At their feet are they souls in form of ba birds. Ithyphallic god standing in his cave and surrounded by twelve star goddesses who outstretch their arms presenting disks to him. They are the goddesses of the time. There are also other stars and disks around the god. He is ejaculating directly on a child, the sun god, to symbolize his creation. The whole scene is surrounded by a huge snake, the Mehen. Below ten heads showed overturned, with the hieroglyphs representing shadows, while below are other heads with arms extended and raised in prayer. Two goddesses have their arms raised in adoration of a sun disk. On the left burial mounds, from which emerged a head and arms raised up in a gesture of praise.

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