WORDS REFERRING TO SWALLOWING IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS TEXTS
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/ejars.2022.246580
pages: 97-110
Abd El-Aziz, R.
Egyptology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum Univ., Fayoum, Egypt.
Abstract:
The ancient Egyptian expressed Osiris’s torn body by the
word/expression “iwf Wsir”, meaning Osiris’s body members
(Osiris’s flesh). The texts identified the body parts and what
areas of Egypt they were found by Isis and Nephthys.
Osiris’s head was found in Memphis, the neck in Latopolis,
the heart in Athribis, etc. However, the vital processes related
to the body, such as swallowing and its words through the
ancient Egyptian religious texts, were not considered. The
words referring to swallowing varied through the ages, such
as the Pyramid Texts in the Old Kingdom, Coffin Texts in
the Middle Kingdom, and the Book of the Dead in the New
Kingdom.
Keywords:
Body members Swallowing Osiris The myth of on Geb
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