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CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST DIVISION OF THE ṬUAT, WHICH IS CALLED NET-RĀ.

In the scene that illustrates the First Division of the Ṭuat, which is passed through by the Sun-god during the First Hour of the night, we see that the centre of the middle section is divided lengthwise into

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The Boat of Ȧf, the dead Sun-god.Maāti goddesses. Neken-f,

two parts by a river which flows along it. In the upper part is the boat of the dead Sun-god Ȧf,

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, who is in the form of a ram-headed man; he wears a disk upon his head, and stands within a shrine in the Sektet boat, i.e., the boat in which the god travels