The Litany of the Sun appears at the time of the dynasty 17th This work bears as   title "Book to pray Re in the west, to pray the united at the west." The text starts with a big litany that evokes 75 times the sun god  under different names. These names are divided for example in two parts, even and odd numbers appearing in two different places, on the partitions right and left of a tomb. In the tomb of Sety 1st, the Litany is preceded by a title figure that you can see, as it is in this G chapel. It reunites the scarab and the god with head of ram, in a disk that makes escape the bad strengths, snake or alligator of which one can see the tails on the photo. (according to E. Hornung, cf. biblio). In another interpretation, the snake and the alligator are there to protect the disk.(Corteggiani, 2007). Nearby the two snakes, two antelope heads.

 

  The tree representations of the sun god : the disk,  the beetke and the god with a ram head.

 

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