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Amduat: fourth and fifth hour

Amduat. Left: Fourth hour. The sun boat, transformed into a serpent, is in a vast desert, the Land of Sokar, lord of the Rosetau and funerary form of Osiris. The desert is populated by gigantic serpents. A sarcophagus proceeds downwards. The final part shows, at the bottom, fourteen heads and as many stars, each surmounted by a disc, representing the deities of the first fourteen days of the month. They are carried by a three-headed serpent. Behind them a male figure raising his arm and the goddess Maat. Above is the god Khepri represented as a winged solar disc. On the right: Fifth hour. Upper register. A goddess wearing a feather on her head and raising her arms in front of the Ennead, represented by nine hieroglyphic signs meaning 'god', the first of which presents a white crown with uraeus. Below, a chamber with a rounded, sand-filled roof has a sign for 'darkness' at the top, symbolising the underworld of Sokar. On each side is a hawk perched. At the bottom emerges a beetle proceeding towards the lower register. Middle register. The ground rises to form a mound from which a woman's head emerges. On the left and right seven deities ferry Ra's boat. Lower register. The land of Sokar, immediately below the mound of earth, is in the shape of an island in the middle of the river Duat, and lies on the bodies of two sphinxes with human heads peeking out from the sides of the oval. Inside the oval is a snake with three snake heads at one end and a human head at the other end. Above it a god with a hawk's head between two wings. Images and texts are executed in cursive script imitating funerary papyri.

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