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ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2018-02-18 01:08 pm
ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2018-02-18 01:08 pm
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Death as an Enemy 10
Whew! Still going.
This is interesting: one name for the deceased in the Book of the Night is the nnty.w, "denizens of the nn.t, the counter-heaven". (p237) (Alas, Zandee doesn't say much more about this realm.)
Also interesting: foreigners such as Nubians are at a disadvantage in the afterlife compared to Egyptians, who know their way around. The king is protected from foreigners, the enemies of Egypt, in the afterlife. Various texts make it clear that Re created and provides for all peoples, not just the Egyptians; and from the Book of Gates we learn that Sekhmet protects the souls of Asiatics and Libyans (pp 239-40).
"The sinners in the netherworld have as a punishment that they are not allowed to see Re when he comes." (p 244)
Section C. of Zandee's list of terms concerns "Judgment and Execution", with words for evidence, testimony, accusations, and so on. Section C.3, "Denominations for judges of the dead", includes the four baboons surrounding the lake of fire in the Book of the Dead, who judge the dead; gods such as Anubis and Ḫnty ʾImnty.w (Khenty-Imentiu, "Foremost of the Westeners", ie Osiris; and various officials and councils of judges.
That's it for my brief reading and notes from Zandee's exhaustive list of terms and examples. I want to go back and just jot down a couple of things I'd flagged:
The m3śty.w (p 204), demons from the Book of Two Ways: "They squat, have animal's heads and carry reptiles in their hands."
The ḫ3ty.w (p 205), "slaughterers" with knives, including "the slaughterers of Sekhmet" mentioned in the Book of the Dead.
Zandee, J. Death as an Enemy According to Ancient Egyptian Conceptions. (Studies in the Histories of Religions, Supplement to Numen, V). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1960.
This is interesting: one name for the deceased in the Book of the Night is the nnty.w, "denizens of the nn.t, the counter-heaven". (p237) (Alas, Zandee doesn't say much more about this realm.)
Also interesting: foreigners such as Nubians are at a disadvantage in the afterlife compared to Egyptians, who know their way around. The king is protected from foreigners, the enemies of Egypt, in the afterlife. Various texts make it clear that Re created and provides for all peoples, not just the Egyptians; and from the Book of Gates we learn that Sekhmet protects the souls of Asiatics and Libyans (pp 239-40).
"The sinners in the netherworld have as a punishment that they are not allowed to see Re when he comes." (p 244)
Section C. of Zandee's list of terms concerns "Judgment and Execution", with words for evidence, testimony, accusations, and so on. Section C.3, "Denominations for judges of the dead", includes the four baboons surrounding the lake of fire in the Book of the Dead, who judge the dead; gods such as Anubis and Ḫnty ʾImnty.w (Khenty-Imentiu, "Foremost of the Westeners", ie Osiris; and various officials and councils of judges.
That's it for my brief reading and notes from Zandee's exhaustive list of terms and examples. I want to go back and just jot down a couple of things I'd flagged:
The m3śty.w (p 204), demons from the Book of Two Ways: "They squat, have animal's heads and carry reptiles in their hands."
The ḫ3ty.w (p 205), "slaughterers" with knives, including "the slaughterers of Sekhmet" mentioned in the Book of the Dead.
Zandee, J. Death as an Enemy According to Ancient Egyptian Conceptions. (Studies in the Histories of Religions, Supplement to Numen, V). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1960.