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This suggests the Egyptians were playing on a connection between the pawns on the
Senet Board and the cloth offerings. In the Amduat, Hours 8 and 9, we find deities
sitting on the cloth offering glyph, which would seem to be a very uncomfortable seat.
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This suggests we are dealing with another complex word play. On the one hand, these
are the pawns or the divine houses where the pawns rest on the Senet Board. On the
other hand, there is yet another pun with the word "menekhet" that means "perfection".
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We still have to mention the glyph for "amen", which means hidden, west, and the right
side (as opposed to the left side that was identified with the east). The idea of "hidden"
derives from the disappearance of the sun in the west, and they often wrote the "hep"
glyph that meant hidden as a determinative for "amen" used in that sense. They spelled
it phonetically using the reed and Senet Board glyphs. They used the glyph for solstice
topped by a feather for the notions of west and right side. Often they included a hawk
perched on top to indicate divine quality. That could be read as "Bak-Amen" (another
game played on the Senet Board, the Invisible Hawk, Your Invisible Mind).
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The idea of being hidden linked the glyph to Amen, The Invisible form of Ra. Ra's
consort, Hathor, was also often called Amenet, and the realm in which the sun and its
light became invisible (i.e. night) was called Amenetet. The Amduat text is a detailed
description of that Invisible Realm -- the Light that is not visible but can be cognized --,
which is why the proper title of the work by which it announces itself is Book of the
Hidden Chamber (or Book of the Hidden Realm Sesh ne @at Amenet), and its
contents describe the Baiu (thoughts), Neteru (natural archetypes), Shewut (shadows =
subconscious entities), Aakhu (Light Beings), and Aru (actions) that begin at the West
(amen), the Seba (Stargate) of the Aakhet Amenetet (Western Horizon = Samadhi of the
Invisible Realm) and culminate in the Unifying Darkness, which is the Stargate of the
Western Horizon.
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