Motif
amuletic substitution for the heart
amuletic_substitution_for_the_heart
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
egyptian
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians THE STORY OF RUT-TETET AND THE THREE SONS OF RA / CHAPTER IV / THE BOOK OF THE DEAD / LITANY; lines 1922-2015 confidence: high
Rubrics prescribe reciting the prayer over a green stone scarab, hanging it from the deceased's neck or placing it in the mummy's breast as a heart substitute; a tradition places its discovery by Herutataf at Khemenu on a lapis-inlaid alabaster block under Thoth's feet, and the passage says the prayer became a spell and the scarabs amulets.
Rubrics describe a green stone scarab hung on the deceased or placed in the mummy's breast in place of the heart, with the prayer functioning as a spell or word of power.
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