Blood and Pain Flashcards
khepri
when the sun comes to existence as a beetle, the morning sun, a god
He splits his ball of dirt,
He swims in its red colo
at birth, larva dung beetle emerges from the ball its parents roll between their legs. beetle seen near Nut’s thighs. red refers to the blood of birth. The sun, to which the deceased king is assimilated, opens this ball like an insect, but at the same time is given birth according to a human model
Between the thighs of his mother and a stream of blood
His mother gave birth to him,
a falcon is this Djehoutynakht, bis,
his fire (i.e. to him) being in his back parts,
his howling (i.e. to him) being to his opening (?) (i.e. to her)
deadman reborn as a hawk but as a human and not from an egg. fire is the pain provoked by the deadman passing through the back parts of the goddess. the howling is the of the reborn dead, like an infant
wpj ht “open the body”
may indicate the opening of the mothers body (womb, vulva)