The Solar Cycle Characteristics in the Book of the Dead

The Life-giving Power of the Sun

Osiris the eternal cyclical and linear forms respectively, are static. Both forms have a corresponding aspect of time The deceased is reborn cyclically like the sun god in the sky during the day and the darkness of the underworld. This process is the rebirth of the sun and the soul of the deceased from the underworld to the living world each morning. The deceased is reborn cyclically and is resurrected The solar form of resurrection burial and literature of ancient Egyptian mythology two parallel but interconnected forms of existence after death imitate these two mythological forms

The cosmological relationship of the gods. This concept is expressed in both human and geographical images and texts The sun enters and leaves the body of the sky god or enters the western horizon and re-emerges from the eastern horizon. A cyclical parallel sexual element characterizing the regeneration of the sun

The Sun God is reborn through the generations of three-dimensional gods She is the daughter of the Sun God and she also serves as his consort and is conceived by him in the west at sunset She then becomes the mother of the Sun God when she gives birth to this same Sun God who is resurrected in the east at dawn and re-emerges from the eastern horizon The cosmological relationship of the god is related to Osiris the god of the dead, who is reborn in a cycle as is the Sun God Part of this is related to the deceased and the body. A humanized version of this mythological concept appears on the ceiling of the tomb of Ramses showing the sun passing through and emerging from the body of the sky goddess. For example on the ceiling of the painted sarcophagus chamber of Ramses VI in a small ceiling image showing a pair of women's arms holding a sun disk suggests a combination of human characteristics and topographic features of the western horizon

The Book of the Dead was the name given to the treatise during the 19th century over the centuries and by the end of the 18th dynasty there were about 19 different chapters The original form of many of these chapters can be found in the Pyramid Texts the funerary texts carved on the walls of the chambers and corridors of the pyramids of King Unasteta Pepi I Meri-ra Merenra and Pepi II of Zaqqarah Written during the 5th and 6th dynasties the form in which many of the other chapters took place during the 11th and 12th dynasties is well represented in the texts painted on the sarcophagus of Amamu Sen but it is possible that both these texts and the so-called

Pyramid Texts but some texts on the coffins are from color images such as the ones indicating the region through which the deceased must travel to the other world and the Islands of the Blessed or Elysian Fields The upper edge of the interior of these coffins often has two or more rows of color paintings of offerings given to the deceased or statues during the 5th Dynasty during ceremonies and ritual performances During the 18th Dynasty the tomb awaited rebirth and renewal every night from the union with the Sun God. The union of Osiris with the Sun God is a timeline event but a very important one This event occurred in the underworld It is a crucial moment in the process as an event that is like a production of the mechanism of regeneration. The Sun receives the power of new life and through it Osiris is able to live again in the ritual texts of the New Kingdom