Motif
divine body as sustaining grain and bread
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A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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egyptian
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The Book of the Dead CHAPTER V / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII; lines 792-861 confidence: high
Sarcophagus scenes show the beautified producing celestial food; the texts call wheat ears the members of Osiris, identify the wheat plant as the maat plant, and describe the blessed eating the god's body daily as the Bread of Everlastingness.
The ears of wheat are called members of Osiris, the wheat plant is the maat plant, and the beautified eat the god's body daily as the Bread of Everlastingness.
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