Iufaa as a sun-priest and his false window : going forth into daylight at the eastern horizon

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Iufaa as a sun-priest and his false window : going forth into daylight at the eastern horizon

Original language description

This study presents an annotated translation of a spell from the arch of the east wall of the burial chamber of Iufaa, which represents a new attestation of the text known as Der König als Sonnenpriester. Like most of the decoration that covers the walls of Iufaa&apos;s burial chamber and sarcophagi, the composition focuses primarily on the knowledge of cosmological secrets and mysterious beings of the Underworld. The most interesting aspect of the composition analysed here is the way it interconnects the writing with the iconography and the spells itself with the spatial layout of the burial chamber. The connected pictorial scene of the resurrection of the sun is located in the centre of the arch of the east wall of the burial chamber, and the neighbouring textual columns partially create and image of the hieroglyphic sign of akhet. Immediately under the scene there is a square niche reminiscent of a walled window-like opening. The placement, dimensions and shape of this space mirror the entrance opening for the mummy located in the opposite, west wall. The east &quot;window&quot; thus symbolically connects the ideas of the rising of the sun from the gate of the eastern horizon, the flying out of the god Khepri from the ball of dung and from between the legs of the sky goddess, and the resulting appearance of the sun god in glory and divine might. Therefore, this square opening in the eastern wall of Iufaa&apos;s burial chamber can be linked with the so-called windows of appearance, through which the king or god appeared to the people as someone rising in glory to illuminate the world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Abusir and Saqqara in the year 2020

ISBN

978-80-7671-051-1

Number of pages of the result

11

Pages from-to

347-357

Number of pages of the book

394

Publisher name

Faculty of Arts, Charles University

Place of publication

Prague

UT code for WoS chapter

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