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Cosmic Game © Douglass A. White, 2012 v151207 11 The Judgment of the Heart Tableau in the Papyrus of Ani The ten thrones in the upper panel correspond to the Senet Oracle Board row of heaven. Compare this Drawing to my Senet Oracle Board Layout (p. 10) and the Standard Cubit Ruler (p. 81). (The lower panel is a continuation of the upper panel in the scroll.) Horus Guides Ani to the Chapel where Osiris in Mummy Wrappings Sits on His Throne The 4 canopic mummies of the elements stand on a lotus table before Osiris. Isis and Nephthys stand behind Osiris to support him. The middle row of the Senet Oracle Board roughly matches examples of passengers and retinue often found in traditional depictions of the Solar Boat (see drawing below).
Cosmic Game © Douglass A. White, 2012 v151207 12 Solar Boat Designed by Ptolemy IV at Edfu (Ra is the Solar Disk on the Horizon with a Flying Scarab) Ra is the "secret" identity of Osiris. Fetal Horus sits on the bow of the boat. Behind him we find Horus as a young adult wielding a harpoon to protect the boat, Opener-of-Ways (as human-headed jackal), Maat, Hathor, and Thoth. In the stern Net, a stand-in for Osiris, adores the Solar Disk, and Horus as the Pilot steers the boat. Pharaoh and the Lords of the Four Senses stand in adoration pose facing the bow and stern of the boat. Pharaoh offers a small image of Maat (Truth) to Ra and his retinue. * Solar Boat from the Amduat (Ram-headed Ra-Awef Stands under the Canopy) In front of Ra we find in the bow Opener-of-Ways (in human form), Lord of Touch, and Hathor (Love and Light). Behind Ra we find Horus of Adorations, The Energy of Air (Lord of Hearing), Awakener (Lord of Vision), Lord of Taste, and Horus as the Pilot of the Boat. Although I can not produce a surviving example of a Senet Oracle Board with my exact layout drawn on it, the figures and sequences in the top and bottom rows are familiar in the funerary texts and the figures in the top row also closely match the sequence of deity names on the cubit rule that I show on page 81 below. Egyptian Senet Boards often had only a few symbols or none at all. The upper row stood for the Realm of Heaven, the bottom row was the Realm of Earth, and the middle row was the Realm of Magic. The Egyptians described the Realm of Magic in the Amduat. It includes sleep, dreaming, meditation, bardo states, alchemy and other forms of material or spiritual transformation. The Senet Oracle Game Board was a treasured part of Egyptian culture from the beginning of the Old Kingdom and perhaps even predynastic times. The young and obscure pharaoh Tutankhamen had 4 Senet Boards in his very small tomb along with thousands of other amazing artifacts, so we can imagine what treasures must have been cached in the vast tombs of great pharaohs such as Sety I and Rameses II before they were looted.
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