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originally posted by: Kantzveldt
a reply to: Byrd
Of course, there is the small question of the water lily first appearing from Nun through which khepri emerges not to mention the curious transformation of a beetle into a boy...
The legend describes a lotus flower rising from the water. As the lotus flower opens, a scarab is revealed, then metamorphoses into a young boy crying. As his tears fall, they create humanity. We find allusions to this in the Pyramid Texts.
What the scribes often overlooked however is that there was also a frog named Kek sat upon the water lily leaf over seeing the entire process, this may however have been an hallucination induced by the fragrance of the water lily, things are uncertain.
n a scene of offering the wesekh -collar, the king describes the object as follows: “it is called Khepri together with his children
Many texts identify the nine leaves of the collar with the Ennead, another wesekh-collar scene mentions“Re between his children while elsewhere Montu-Re-Harakhty of Armantis further qualified as “Khepri in the midst of his children
Nb‘gold’, is the nexus of an important series of puns in Egyptian, all marked by the presence, sometimes straightforwardly etymological, sometimes allusive, of the bead collar sign.
The series includes nbi ‘to melt metal’, ‘cast objects in metal’, ‘gild’, and by extension to model or fashion something generally; nbi, ‘flame’, specifically the divine flame of the uraeus; nb, ‘grain’, perhaps metaphorical from its golden color;
The Egyptian rḫ-iḫy, “magician, scholar”, is preeminently a knower of texts, but s/he is literally a knower of things, iḫt, a word which has the determiner of a rolled papyrus, for it has been abstracted from particular things
originally posted by: Kantzveldt
a reply to: Byrd
I think the popular present notion of Khepri rolling the Sun across the sky as a piece of dung isn't supported, the concern was with Khepri taking flight after emergence from the underworld;
Commendations to Re
146 (222) joining the ongoing circuit of Re
by the priest
To say the words :
You shall stand up on it, this Earth [which issued from Atum, this spittle], which issued from Kheprer. Evolve on it, become exalted on it, and your father will see You, Re will see You!
As seen above then there is also close association between Khepri and the wesekh/bead-collar, the nine leaves of the collar were considered related to the Ennead, and one could also perhaps assume this related to the opening of the lotus bud
n a scene of offering the wesekh -collar, the king describes the object as follows: “it is called Khepri together with his children
Many texts identify the nine leaves of the collar with the Ennead, another wesekh-collar scene mentions“Re between his children while elsewhere Montu-Re-Harakhty of Armantis further qualified as “Khepri in the midst of his children
Two Curious Orthographies about Khepri
There was also seen in the Book of Thoth the importance of the bead collar;
The main pendants used as part of "plant-form" collars depict fruit, flowers, and leaves. This can be explained by the fact that such collars imitate garlands made from real plants, although at least one design, the bunch of grapes, could never had been used in such a collar.
Some of these designs can be interpreted as representations of plants containing narcotic substances. The mandrake fruit, opium poppy, and lotus flower all contain psychoactive drugs, while the grapes and date may represent fruit used in the production of alcoholic drink.
The amutetic collar, particularly the form composed entirely of nefer-signs, appears only on women. This may be a misleading impression owing to the small number of representations and examples which have survived.