The Liturgy of Funerary Offerings
by E. A. Wallis Budge | 1909 | 31,069 words
The book “Liturgy of Funerary Offerings” focuses on the “Book of the Opening of the Mouth”—dealing with an essential Egyptian funerary ritual. This ritual, crucial for mummifying pharaohs, involved offerings of food, beverages, and other items, alongside priestly litanies. These offerings were believed to spiritually nourish the deceased’s “Ka” and...
Chapter 3.14: The Twenty-first Ceremony
[Full title: The Twenty-first Ceremony]
In the next ceremonies the various kinds of bread and cakes on the "Tchesert" table were offered one by one. The first was the tept, and as the SEM priest presented it the Kher heb said:—
"Unas, the Eye of Horus hath been presented unto thee for thy tasting."
The Sem priest presenting the Tept cake.
Here there is a play on the words tept, a "kind of bread," and tep, "to taste."
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