Image code: 30400

Scenes from the Cave Book, Sixth Section.

Book of Caves, final scene of the Sixth Section. Lower register: sun boat emerging from hillside protected by two sphinxes representing the entrance to the Underworld. Middle register: the Ba (soul) of Ra in the form of a winged scarab with ram's head; Upper register: the sun god Ra in the form of a child raised by the waters of creation represented as triangles with waves of water. The god is also represented as a sun disc and scarab symbolising the sun in the morning propelled by two arms pointing downwards. Figures of the dead accompanied by their souls ba

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