The god Thoth with Seti I, in the Tomb of Seti I “The ancients thought of death as the essenti
The god Thoth with Seti I, in the Tomb of Seti I“The ancients thought of death as the essential prelude to life. The two form a polarity; one is meaningless without the other, and they alternate in all spheres of nature - among men, animals, vegetation and stars. Death is passing from one kind of time to another - from life yesterday to life tomorrow. What is in the Underworld belongs to death, but it is in a state of becoming, where the ‘form’ or shape of things is given in which they will later “appear.”” ―Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, by R. T. Rundle Clark -- source link
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