The New Gestation

Question 1

who can be carried through gestation

Answer 1

deadperson, both royal and nonroyal

Question 2

how does gestation deviate from the biological aspect?

Answer 2

due to the division of maternal tasks and eternal gestation

Question 3

what is the division of maternal tasks

Answer 3

one goddess carries decease in gestation while the another gives birth

Question 4

The perfect one his mother named, the heir his father named,
carried in gestation by the sky (jwr(w) n pt), given birth to by the morning star (ms(w) (j)n dwȝt).
O Merenrê! May the sky carry you in gestation with Orion (jwr ṯw pt ḥnʿ sȝḥ),
May the morning star give birth to you and Orion (ms ṯw dwȝt ḥnʿ sȝḥ)!

Answer 4

carried by the sky (not Nut) and given birth by the Morningstar (male god). parents are celestial beings rather than humans

Question 5

who carried a discussion regarding the morning star?

Answer 5

J. Zandee

Question 6

deadman has no fathers and no mothers amongst human

Answer 6

emphasizes the dead has become eternal through this new birth

Question 7

May Isis receive him, may Nephtys beget him

Answer 7

Nephtys assumes male role as “to beget” refers to male procreation. blurred gender in divine procreation. king as dual nature just as country. thus division of maternal tasks linked to duality of royal person

Question 8

did the new birth of kings provoke violence of nature and what were they?

Answer 8

yes, earthquake, rain, flood, lighting, mountains rising

Question 9

It is for Osiris that you were born, Horus, and you became more ba than him, you became more powerful than him. It is for Geb that you were carried in gestation, Set, and you became more ba than him, you
became more powerful than him.

Answer 9

king embodies Horus and seth, 2 gods for 1 kingship
2 different kings for the dual nature of kingship

Question 10

who noticed the division of maternal tasks as being linked with royal symbolism

Answer 10

Etienne Drioton

Question 11

Gestation inside the goddess Nut

Answer 11

tombs, sarcophagi, and necropoleis are in Nut
having stars in tombs shows the tomb is in her belly

Question 12

gestation in the earth and its avatars (snakes, caves)

Answer 12

deceased and sun can be in gestation in the earth. snakes linked with rejuvination and earthly caus they hide in the ground. signifies the return to the earth of the first birth

Question 13

what is earth in egypt

Answer 13

masculine and incarnated as Geb

Question 14

Gestation in Egg

Answer 14

possibly primordial
rebirth of a person equal to the creation of the world

Question 15

gestation in primordial ocean noun

Answer 15

dark ocean where elements ofcreation float
parallel between mythical primordial waters and gestation in the body
baby float in fluid inside mothers stomach

Question 16

Gestation in Jar
It was after spending the night in his jar that Ounas came out of his jar,
Ounas appeared in the early morning,
It was after spending the night in his jar that he came out of his jar.
Ounas appeared in the early morning

Answer 16

uses images to signify a new birth
to go out/came out is to be reborn, spending the night is new gestation as death is sleep, appeared early morning means the solar birth and thus rebirth generally takes place in the morning. the jar is the womb. The person is born in the womb and then comes out in the morning as in in being born

Question 17

Eternal gestation
Your mother says: “Your mother carried you in gestation for ten months (m ȝbdw 10)9 she nursed you for three years. I carry you in gestation for an indefinite time (m tr šww) and I will never give birth to you again.”

Answer 17

Nut speaks
eternal gestation is uninterrupted care and protection